Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

hmmm ... sounds a bit cranky! - had a tooth out today :(

BilLK

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:25 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 
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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
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