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 1NGukS-00063W-D8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:32:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 361E4E06EC; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f217.google.com (mail-ew0-f217.google.com [209.85.219.217]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F02E06EC for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1477709ewy.11 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:31:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.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:message-id; bh=XLqLzfEYl4w19CuwZKocNGx2e1y1/rHuzWjPaFGL86g=; b=BpbkAe+ctuKbvA7Uqm7SqyFPVDe29fnX1AEqWCQuHBk9+73xI0p8StGhhIuJMnpOGG CL87yjwT5xMLkWjVeRxU/ZKY4LnUg37+WaZlL+4pqfQE+a+Bfts0dBu1kYtdW6w+P++d b53UGM/xYw1On9KeuZe7bE+QhZ+ebg5mvEUDY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=pCyBHynaid6Qnuptv7ExaEVMbuzKdcA25KuiEGYpo2LnxAwvWpvDo4IK8Tkh4BiMFI 5VOzubOLxQLVslVc4n0MzAjKH3ivN4mPxdo/Ml99ym8x0lM8qE0plssCSSx+gAfRO8Wj osaCVc87EvaUkHD9WYCh30gCAwOekmRFPJnDk= Received: by 10.216.85.73 with SMTP id t51mr1657902wee.155.1260019884139; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m5sm8963660gve.27.2009.12.05.05.31.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:31:23 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:31:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-zen0r4; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <3ac129340912041502oac3e7d9o620a049b6141291@mail.gmail.com> <20091205051452.GB4840@ca.inter.net> In-Reply-To: <20091205051452.GB4840@ca.inter.net> 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 Message-Id: <200912051431.16711.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: de8b6711-ba86-4822-9a41-7b6e95262bae X-Archives-Hash: c1c836efe4a3c1ac38d7881750a1043e On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of > 'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which > have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is > recommended, then individually 'emerge -pv ' & -- if all looks well > -- 'emerge '. Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session > (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to > chaos > with all the extra frantic labor which would result. which f*cks up world and is a very bad idea. Really, emmerging every single package? 'world' is useless for you and cleaning unused deps a nightmare. Congratulation, you crippled your system. The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. Use it and a downgrade in case of problems only takes seconds.