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 1NHmLn-0008HE-A6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:46:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6ACAE05F1; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay1j.uniserve.ca [216.210.109.128]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A04E05F1 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-137.58.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.58.137] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NHmLT-0006HL-Jw for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:46:20 -0800 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:46:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:46:18 -0500 From: Philip Webb 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 Message-ID: <20091207224618.GA4774@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200912051431.16711.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20091205190950.GA4779@ca.inter.net> <200912060819.18214.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20091206194944.GA4785@ca.inter.net> <20091207110157.484d5f52@digimed.co.uk> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091207110157.484d5f52@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: 9b74dbf8-0d5c-4670-98e7-4c29d3f22f03 X-Archives-Hash: e0e10a9c03d4ec31b85ddc7aec6bf06f 091207 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:49:44 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I know that from my home-made list of pkgs which I have installed, >> where they are marked with 'W' & system pkgs with 'S'. >> Yes, I do have to keep it upto-date as I do emerges. >> One of the major deficiencies of Gentoo is >> that it doesn't provide such a file automatically. > emerge -p @system > emerge -p @world root:501 ~> emerge -p @system !!! '@system' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. root:502 ~> emerge -p @world !!! '@world' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. 'man 5 ebuild' has nothing relevant to '@' 'system' 'world' '-p'. I'm using the latest stable Portage-2.1.6.3 . Any further advice ? Let me emphasise yet again: the way I do things has been successful on 2 machines for more than 6 years; it's others who have problems doing it their way & regularly seek advice on this list as a result. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca