From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from longlandclan.hopto.org (202-47-55-78.adsl.gil.com.au [202.47.55.78]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j42NtaX6018230 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 23:55:43 GMT Received: (qmail 6944 invoked by uid 210); 3 May 2005 09:55:26 +1000 Received: from 10.0.0.251 by www (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(10.0.0.251):. Processed in 0.168561 secs); 02 May 2005 23:55:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.251?) (10.0.0.251) by 192.168.5.1 with SMTP; 3 May 2005 09:55:25 +1000 Message-ID: <4276BDF5.5050707@longlandclan.hopto.org> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 09:55:33 +1000 From: Stuart Longland User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <4274B10C.5060507@longlandclan.hopto.org> <42763F57.6080206@flaska.net> <42764CF6.4020608@gentoo.org> <4276513D.5060200@flaska.net> <42765654.3010404@gentoo.org> <427657FE.6010204@flaska.net> In-Reply-To: <427657FE.6010204@flaska.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE93CA5F0E9B6993074D7829D" X-Archives-Salt: eef621ee-5ed5-49fb-adc7-a0c2131c1b81 X-Archives-Hash: b47663672827b58732761b1bf1ca29ec This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE93CA5F0E9B6993074D7829D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jan Kundr=C3=A1t wrote: > Stephen P. Becker wrote: >=20 > > Removing old profiles will do nothing other than forcing them to set = a > > new profile. Changing the profile won't stop people from doing secur= ity > > only updates. >=20 > Okay, as long as "changing the profile" won't affect people *much* (I > mean if it doesn't break their boxes), it is perfectly correct. >=20 > I asked just to make sure that broken /etc/make.profile won't completel= y > screw up Portage or so :-). Actually... things are more likely to break if you leave the system as-is. The toolchain and libs will be getting quite old, and while the updated packages should be backward compatable, they may not be. Anyway, wouldn't security updates include the core system, rather than just things like Apache? --=20 +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | | Atomic Linux Project -oOo- http://atomicl.berlios.de | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ --------------enigE93CA5F0E9B6993074D7829D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCdr34uarJ1mMmSrkRAsP4AJ0Zh/bUHlOUq5gSb1fluafIvuvuFACbBKmW 4e7BpBwPl5Nk2bhG4G1nK1A= =LcXK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE93CA5F0E9B6993074D7829D-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list