From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDdvR-0006Nj-HA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:26:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B55EEE018C; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:26:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.106]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D54DE018C for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:26:02 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAL6fLEp8qUFf/2dsb2JhbADKQ4QKBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,324,1241366400"; d="scan'208";a="526927782" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.65.95]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 08 Jun 2009 20:26:00 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C2618C84C8 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:26:00 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IaH9r4j1lrRy for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE5718C849A for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ... From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20090607171127.30ba5793@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <1244289806.15834.22.camel@rattus> <200906061923.13739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1244338101.15834.31.camel@rattus> <20090607171127.30ba5793@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0800 Message-Id: <1244463957.15834.58.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 04cda65f-bb6d-4ad6-ad0e-51ddaa50758d X-Archives-Hash: 516e9a7aa15db82dee41c70bd2e63804 2.1.6.13 was the latest when ... - thats as kindly as I can think of the person and his reasons for putting me through a lot of work as I didnt notice the downgrade on one system in time. If it was for security or other reasons I could understand it, and maybe not agree with it ... but just because he wanted some extra testing he decided to "play" with users systems! I agree with you that portage is usually bug free and trustworthy ... but the trust aspect has been sorely tried. On this system, I just left portage at what seemed to be a working version to avoid the problems caused by the downgrade. This was a few weeks ago now, so they have probably been sorted, but I think it might be better to upgrade and find another stable, working version. BillK On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 17:11 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:28:21 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > * sys-apps/portage > > Latest version available: 2.1.6.13 > > Latest version installed: 2.2_rc15 > > If you're going to run release candidate versions, at least run the > latest release candidate. rc15 hasn't been in portage for a while, we're > currently on rc33. Add ~sys-apps/portage-2.2 package.{unmask,keywords} to > ensure you have a valid version. > > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!