From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDDna-0000PQ-Ew for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:55:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BCA5E091D; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.245]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8110FE08D2 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:54:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c8so230252ana.47 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:54:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Cd8xBgguO/aGS4bpGo3FFrX4SCXObwYIxog+Ws2T6FE=; b=kQRqArneio5KdE2kdvY12VAo1xHmCWTZ8e/5lCdy4CeyQUgXhs5s9KXAMVkfimRXAiidj7dbIQQnhvTpgQe4Yr8qCEOF0gQmrmViAjYu+r4BTelgUV1+rOStWppoafObJ9PQRUtyMX4VHyl0ujG4fDFTxjq09KjGrQHaSsda6xA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=gvKFnR0O+BmccfnrgIrAq9Xq+OyCzWciRYnoJPL+lSFcCgL1nqirIblI+gh3tUbofxsF9GL/+j3zMur5r4m60ftWfQxMmwc2mGPNXAUMLl0By3HT4RB6/BbY2+J01bVOXGo74yA2sT/apIj5lNwTIJ8xApmQIzL/V6QJjmy7VqE= Received: by 10.100.251.5 with SMTP id y5mr6114580anh.75.1200034496308; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:54:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.9? ( [196.209.34.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i52sm3821439rne.2.2008.01.10.22.54.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:54:55 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] expat update (was:Update After a Year) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:49:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080110111910.78309563@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4786705E.9060308@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4786705E.9060308@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801110849.53709.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ab6a4144-2bac-4e54-b4a8-428138430a86 X-Archives-Hash: 8899568d63d92856b05dcd20a3b48c05 On Thursday 10 January 2008, b.n. wrote: > Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > > The expat upgrade was less than a year ago for stable systems. > > Sorry if hijacking the thread, but: it's a long time I have > expat-1.9.6 and, even if 2.0.1 is in portage, emerge -av world > doesn't tell me to upgrade (I guess emerge -Dav would, but why should > I?). Should I do nonetheless, or can I wait? I find emerge -uND world every so often is a good idea, as updates are then incremental and I can deal with problems one at a time instead of lots all at once. I don't know of any good reason why you *should* upgrade to expat-2.0.1 right now, other than simply staying up to date. Be prepared to become good friends with revdep-rebuild when you *do* do it, the upgrade caused huge numbers of broken linkages to libexpat.so.0 alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list