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 1MLiBW-00080U-E0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:36:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2B1AE055C; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610CDE055C for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so415561ewy.34 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:36:00 -0700 (PDT) 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=L5ppzMqrTBbnP1v2SXRh7wT0H7n98j/6N/30h0bS4KM=; b=oCEAMUafUO1yt1b6CONVC2KJ6z7ycrws9Uk8YHylFmG1BR7fLQ//DCgifs3pp5RJVM W9C5ljhXs76uKI924BCKxQP6dF6wt0SHktGUwXm+urUvlwTSFHGbqJV/qjq9eEuFcoGF +r4jY8ZjKCAC3d4tLs22fZtKcHxORYYQILkIY= 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=B7QINt47M5trnxCXp+kLNYeuLIDB+IkcZWa3yROxKgn++sOpsUx0GLT2KRU247uDLT Kk2B5m5nAYYSTFPp7z2yRWC7xvnRAEi+8osTJyBKT3Mn2YYlAFT4786XqjrUS1MNzrO/ oUpsKoe/WuGfudi893Bc7NADpTgZ/ymOCYeTY= Received: by 10.210.62.3 with SMTP id k3mr3720036eba.62.1246386960810; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.245]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm577410eyg.47.2009.06.30.11.35.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:36:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings? Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:34:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090630105840.3b745beb@lappy.evolone.org> In-Reply-To: <20090630105840.3b745beb@lappy.evolone.org> 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: <200906302034.19373.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0234b8b4-c6fb-4a9a-aa21-cfff651cfd1c X-Archives-Hash: 4dedb51aaeb72114b006f73a1f2cdae8 On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:58:40 Michael Higgins wrote: > Here's an example of a (possibly) useless log warning. I say useless > because I don't know (how would I?) whether this was updated from version > 0.30 or not. > > I get these kinds of messages regularly. Sometimes, I say, "right. I did > that last week, why is it telling me again?". > > How do others know if a warning applies after any system/world update? > > LOG: postinst > > The database format has changed between 0.30 and 0.40. > You may need to update all your local databases and caches. > To do so, please run the following commands: > (for each user) $ update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime/ > (as root) # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/ portage doesn't have a mechanism to tell you to do something and then record that you did in fact do it. So it always tells you to do something. We often attempt to ascribe human intelligence to software. It's a side-effect of being human. Be alert for it :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com