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 4.54) id 1EpuNu-0004Du-Me for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:23:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBNLMieb000578; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:22:44 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBNLJwGQ026240 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:19:58 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EpuKT-0003bo-Si for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:19:58 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EpuKM-0007cA-Ke for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:19:50 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:19:50 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:19:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:19:38 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <200512231910.56795.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200512240222.06574.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200512240406.05350.jstubbs@gentoo.org> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4002fe69-8b57-4397-93a4-d5bedf5628cf X-Archives-Hash: f22e723444282dfec7c874a238e8eac0 Jason Stubbs posted <200512240406.05350.jstubbs@gentoo.org>, excerpted below, on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:06:05 +0900: >> You are /sure/ the new code won't screw anything of that sort up, right? >> Maybe that's the reason nobody seems to have been around to know about. >> It just sounds like it /could/ be dangerous to me. For some reason, I >> don't like the idea of something that could hose a system that badly! =8^\ > > *Please* don't tell me you run ~arch. Well, I do, plus some stuff from package.mask like gcc-4.x and the associated binutils and glibc stuff. OTOH, I have long run a working and a backup snapshot version of the system portions of my system (everything that packages normally touch), for this very reason -- I'm running unstable, so I should be prepared to boot to the backup if the main system gets hosed, either by my fat-fingering or that of someone else. Still, the last glibc upgrade was more "exciting" than I had anticipated, even if DO say if I wanted boring and reliable, I'd be doing household appliances, not computers. (I'm proud to say I handled it without having to resort to a reboot or the backups, tho... if only because I happened to have an mc instance running in another vt at the time, and I was able to use it to restore enough symlinks manually, to read the documentation, figure out what happened, and restore the others by copying them out of the binpkg.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list