From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goliath.roninds.net (c-24-131-17-137.hsd1.oh.comcast.net [24.131.17.137] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4G4QL4x012266 for ; Mon, 16 May 2005 04:26:21 GMT Received: by goliath.roninds.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 47409E50; Mon, 16 May 2005 00:29:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 00:29:58 -0400 From: David Stanek To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) Message-ID: <20050516042958.GC7890@goliath.hsd1.oh.comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050516040715.GS20409@no-eff-eks.com> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="raC6veAxrt5nqIoY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050516040715.GS20409@no-eff-eks.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng 1.5.9i (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 593c6e80-8e9f-4773-ab47-3a1a3f029c5c X-Archives-Hash: cd2aed64cce3cdb965ec7589e37bf331 --raC6veAxrt5nqIoY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:07:15PM -0700, Sami Samhuri wrote: > * On Sun May-15-2005 at 05:18:06 PM -0400, Mike Frysinger said: > [...] > > 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 = =2E..=20 > > then next time you break a core system package which cannot be recovere= d by=20 > > simply running `emerge` a few times, you run `erescue ` >=20 > Everyone who is saying that Portage can already sort of handle this > seems to be missing one important point. If Python is broken then emerge > won't work. The proposed erescue would still work in that case. If erescue is a statically built binary that basically untars a backed up copy of a package, why would it depend on Python? --=20 David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 8BAA 7E11 8856 E148 6833 655A 92E2 3E00 6272 EDAF --raC6veAxrt5nqIoY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCiCHGkuI+AGJy7a8RAoRsAJ91/lmMISBOk6f3AjyQMNnGe3iULQCgrUVZ Gj/IwyAE4PCM8dJKGA74kM4= =kEZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --raC6veAxrt5nqIoY-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list