From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j430huol026187 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 00:43:56 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.50] (user-feff18.user.msu.edu [35.11.210.211]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j430huex019672 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 20:43:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4276C9B9.90103@egr.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 20:45:45 -0400 From: Alec Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050219) 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> <4276BDF5.5050707@longlandclan.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <4276BDF5.5050707@longlandclan.hopto.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 09b6cd73-798c-4705-8641-0d1eba629a65 X-Archives-Hash: 802493aa280a0a82f4e49ee6b24aa070 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The only dish I have is what if a new profile doesn't support what they are attempting to do? If something is profile masked ( gcc fex ) there is no way currently for a user to unmask it, even in /etc/portage. In the end they just might symlink make.profile to /etc/portage/profile and just make their own, although again it seems rather hackish. Is there documentation guides for modifying ones own profile? Certainly the portage support is mostly there ( if one points make.profile to /etc/portage/profile it technically is all there ). I guess as a user it would be nice to see a migration/setup guide for a profile setup, perhaps I will write one ;) Stuart Longland wrote: > Jan Kundrát wrote: > >>Stephen P. Becker wrote: >> >> >>>Removing old profiles will do nothing other than forcing them to set a >>>new profile. Changing the profile won't stop people from doing security >>>only updates. >> >>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. >> >>I asked just to make sure that broken /etc/make.profile won't completely >>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? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQnbJuGzglR5RwbyYAQJNNQ/+Ofcg2B5tDlACAlYs3tIlSFOs21Q6PzyQ Nvw5w7qah7lm7goF3qygwGqi7NQwGY04hB3Qp2yIEEhR1gBQkUuh8s9dXrRjobU5 OGhJ4tOyK60L9/RPZw0cy4oLZkVJCYnMYlBa710zzQ9sbJMJPYeR8on8rDhmXsNw aPTRHhE1EFB2VRELwkbfl3FXp/UzJb0INBab4D61HEtPz4Ie2YTCVN2lGiSt7MYm ywFR6NInOrnxeB0TSeult+E4WE6CTuaLdIfhcekt+UgPUNrqb70f3Vnr4i08pAb4 1MTT/DeP31CxkWvNT5Jhw4bh4gEBqJm+lMjh2pomKDorJm/P5jGb0rK/a4YLn0A8 VIm3Wkha/wTdhSMUU07JQcAMmjFVruU/usHeWEvCNM1+b7bWRYVwS0iuPu1wVHKc bHH67oWYYZsN24cX+BOTwiInx51z84OxWxeJf1SDBLu5kDtGj5+wIdE0hxPuBoAR QnHWIgB6P2iQpAXlpi2KdeO/9ZhxBvRgu54e/3JSHpISVL1zQ2Ok95F+3/DGKXtG DoDOVSMMLTtpXZR6SlTIAjKr5dULAnNBPd2egDHDNxLPWZNJZP+cL+Hxl80dgmnI O0taYtrsFaXQ/25HDyjEn6Tn3DtFcrmGWBkPA6salKRNxfGlTQasjkpSVPZGMThc 2qMTbZpY2jQ= =Briz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list