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 1NHoVn-0002Sb-4x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:05:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00ADCE08AC; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:04:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9421E08AC for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:04:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F42456C9D8 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:04:24 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:04:24 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick 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: <20091208010424.399f0468@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091207224618.GA4774@ca.inter.net> 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> <20091207224618.GA4774@ca.inter.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs33 (GTK+ 2.18.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/7pZvw276RRAjlkOMKp8mT/l"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b0de4276-0697-4f6d-a18f-694c82474b34 X-Archives-Hash: 927a836f523de6639faf8b4e12abdbb7 --Sig_/7pZvw276RRAjlkOMKp8mT/l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:46:18 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> One of the major deficiencies of Gentoo is > >> that it doesn't provide such a file automatically. =20 > > emerge -p @system > > emerge -p @world =20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 'man 5 ebuild' has nothing relevant to '@' 'system' 'world' '-p'. > I'm using the latest stable Portage-2.1.6.3 . >=20 > Any further advice ? Sets are not available in stable portage but have been working well in testing for over a year. > 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. That doesn't mean it would work for others, especially if they followed your advice and messed up their world file. Your way basically consists of treating portage with a great deal of mistrust and keeping paper records of everything you permit it to do, after laboriously checking what it tells you it wants to do. Plenty of people let portage get on with the job it is supposed to do without any significant breakage. --=20 Neil Bothwick You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something you can ill afford... --Sig_/7pZvw276RRAjlkOMKp8mT/l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksdph0ACgkQum4al0N1GQNvdwCfZ9oRWUAxK0kQJnFCjR2SbYrk U/4AnRoHQOOS37ABFzDE5ki0JdNlGm6n =Fe4a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/7pZvw276RRAjlkOMKp8mT/l--