From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:51:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509070751.42658.jaervosz@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431E4AB0.60709@munat.com>
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 04:04, Ben Munat wrote:
> Christopher Schwerdt wrote:
> Curious. When I run "glsa-check -t all" and it comes back with 17 hits.
> However, I have a script that runs "emerge sync" and "emerge -p world"
> every night and another one that runs "emerge -puD world" every Saturday. I
> am currently completely up to date on these except libxml wants to be
> updated on "-uD".
>
> So, how do I wind up with 17 packages that need to be updated? Hmm, perhaps
> these are all packages on my system that are neither in my world file nor
> depdencies of stuff in my world file? Would that then make them orphaned?
> And theoretically safe to delete? How does one find out if a specific
> package is required by any other packages again?
Only packages you explicitly emerge are recorded in the world profile
(/var/lib/portage/world) dependencies are not. See the man pages for portage
and emerge for more details.
HTH
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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz)
Operational Manager
Gentoo Linux Security Team
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 22:05 [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates Christopher Schwerdt
2005-09-06 22:16 ` Jeremy Brake
2005-09-07 2:04 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-07 5:51 ` Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen [this message]
2005-09-07 16:21 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-13 22:26 ` Jonas 'data' Fietz
2005-09-21 16:45 ` Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-22 3:28 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-22 4:24 ` Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-22 16:03 ` Ben Munat
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2005-09-06 0:09 [gentoo-server] Virtual ssh users Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-06 0:26 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-06 6:08 ` ysharma
2005-09-06 16:41 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-06 21:53 ` [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates Jeremy Brake
2005-09-06 22:14 ` Paul Kölle
2005-09-07 6:12 ` Michael Irey
2005-09-07 6:48 ` W.Kenworthy
2005-09-07 15:28 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-07 22:56 ` William Kenworthy
2005-09-08 12:19 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-07 12:21 ` xyon
2005-09-08 14:39 ` A. Khattri
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