From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gewde-0004gU-9V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:38:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9VGbxbn025768; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:37:59 GMT Received: from mail.max-t.com (h216-18-124-229.gtcust.grouptelecom.net [216.18.124.229]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9VGYKSC005985 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:34:21 GMT Received: from cocagne.max-t.internal ([192.168.1.124]) by mail.max-t.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GewZ6-0005CJ-GY for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:34:17 -0500 From: Olivier Crete To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <45468ED1.8050107@gentoo.org> <20061031003334.50376630@snowdrop.home> <200610310857.02169.linux@quanteam.info> <20061031150236.7b080211@snowdrop.home> <20061031154508.2dd9afe8@blashyrk> Organization: Gentoo Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:34:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1162312455.4802.17.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> 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 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.124 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tester@gentoo.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on mx X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1 (built Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:17:48 -0500) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.max-t.com) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9VGYKSC005985 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9VGbxdb025768 X-Archives-Salt: 94ae5a62-4779-4200-a261-dc6071da469e X-Archives-Hash: 41740e8a21f1756a28bb032f2cd9d7a6 On Tue, 2006-31-10 at 17:02 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: > This leaves package maintainers in the situation that there are > 'old'/'insecure'/ versions of > packages that are hanging around only because arches have fallen > behind. Package maintainers want to be able to remove these old > versions, but currently cannot because of keywording-lag. > [...] > 3) ?? What about, package maintainers remove all of the other keywords from said broken version and add a nasty ewarning message to the pkg_postinst like "this version has a known security problem, dont use it, bitch to your arch team if you're not happy"... --=20 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list