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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyyAq-0000CX-C5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:47:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k67Li69h024752; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:44:06 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k67LbD9K020511 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:37:13 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BD7E201A28 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:37:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE6F2019D7 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:37:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.1) with ESMTP id 14967496 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:37:13 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:37:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <44AEB475.8000702@maestroprogramador.com> In-Reply-To: <44AEB475.8000702@maestroprogramador.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607072337.11881.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k67LbD9K020511 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k67Li6A0024752 X-Archives-Salt: f09b697e-6a7c-4631-98ad-e1e2d1f4f1cd X-Archives-Hash: abdc2e709b3f0acbc56f8cd061d051fb On Friday 07 July 2006 21:22, Rafael Fern=C3=A1ndez L=C3=B3pez wrote: > Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that "emerge" > is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone > commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma > !!)... if someone updates portage won't be able to update it again > because it will fail ever and ever again... So I suggest to have a > backuped emerge script that we are sure that worked (like the last > emerge tool that was used), and if the new emerge tool is mistaken (so > that user doesn't need to know python) only has to run "regenemerge" fo= r > example, and will have the latest emerge working tool. once upon a time, there was a portage-rescue.... seems, that it is gone (why?) but you can still find it here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~carpaski/portage_rescue/ --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list