From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C76291381F4 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 21:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7F4C21C0A6; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 21:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (mail-wg0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE61C21C01F for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 21:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id e12so799907wge.10 for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:28:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OvXm5ctBlfEzbLsv7HTRkAXWypPzdNhgEaahPQ97CQQ=; b=skTbdp9aBHAadUaE7B4oP/2NIXToQDstuET3gz4ON4/w5/mUQy6T0NdGd7E9msfS1T WxViTXmcn5DpXMaQ4wEI5u0OkvWtbTu6h0HATPyKxf+nB+m/K/kcutXjMg7Mwqc+hW8a 1z4fM+MfRtw8KUWnlDXcb/NO69zVc5+M8ZeuExDC9KmX4AfOueEZaI9WpBmG8VS7cJQQ 4xrRH6N86f6EB+zlvp8B/UBfrWwQ6GBBBWer1zhfCe3YQhZZ9siUVdqSSnCmBNVx0sVv Pc+8DaMzQWiiSYmzliVmC8OcyUpnO7LVQ/opKgKzHGAy/RZcVmQtUFghyEgOhvtK0mBo FDGA== Received: by 10.181.11.234 with SMTP id el10mr4373713wid.7.1355002105568; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-209-117.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.209.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bd7sm4261255wib.8.2012.12.08.13.28.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:28:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 23:25:07 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: emailgrant@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? Message-ID: <20121208232507.6f348f86@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20121205120550.2bc346bf@khamul.example.com> <20121208220616.44fb92ae@khamul.example.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d444199c-5ca1-4f46-af35-2a2f57882854 X-Archives-Hash: 2b817fde60381dfad2754eebeb96cecb On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:07:28 -0800 Grant wrote: > > So they are not really the same thing at all.I'm not saying they're > > the same, I'm saying it looks like @preserved-rebuild does a subset > > of the things revdep-rebuild does. =A0Why run=A0@preserved-rebuild > > followed by revdep-rebuild if the end result is the same as running > > revdep-rebuild? =A0I'm sure I'm missing something here but I don't > > know what it is. OK, I see what you mean. I'm a pessimistic sysadmin who's written a lot of code. I know bug factories when I see one :-) @preserved-rebuild is an excellent idea, but I haven't seen anything yet to convince me that it is bug-free enough yet to the point where I can drop revdep-rebuild entirely. So I still want the safety net of running revdep-rebuild occasionally just in case there's something @preserved-rebuild missed. It's also a good way to find bugs in @preserved-rebuild --=20 Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com