From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4FLLr6O025252 for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 21:21:54 GMT Received: from 83.72.54.193.ip.tele2adsl.dk ([83.72.54.193] helo=[192.168.1.114]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DXQYb-0000LI-DU for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 21:21:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) From: Henrik Brix Andersen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-dIhDqdwbJgDYKRpFq7o2" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 23:21:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1116192111.13692.1.camel@sponge.fungus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: 0ec6c1ac-1060-4540-94f4-96ff19489531 X-Archives-Hash: 5b5518117a7af148ac253b718f456337 --=-dIhDqdwbJgDYKRpFq7o2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > my proposal is to implement a new utility (called 'erescue' for lack of a= =20 > better name) that is written in C and designed to be statically linked ..= .=20 > then next time you break a core system package which cannot be recovered = by=20 > simply running `emerge` a few times, you run `erescue ` >=20 > for example, when i broke binutils in unstable with a gcc4 patch, i notic= ed=20 > that it's hard for users to *easily* recover from this ... we developers = end=20 > up scrambling to build a bunch of binary packages for a variety of compat= ible=20 > compiler/libc combinations so the user can just wget the file and run `em= erge=20 > binutils.tbz2` and be on their way Having been in a similar situation a couple of times myself, I think that's a fantastic idea. ./Brix --=20 Henrik Brix Andersen Gentoo Linux --=-dIhDqdwbJgDYKRpFq7o2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCh71vv+Q4flTiePgRAqe1AJ4kRBmP++klRHHDc+e8Vc1e3LehHwCgvr+A 9NlXiTAgoOGpnHdJJwydP0U= =LHKM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dIhDqdwbJgDYKRpFq7o2-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list