From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>
To: Gentoo Mailing List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Dumb question
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:21:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452C714D.2030008@gt.rr.com> (raw)
I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always
wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages
to update a package that happens to be running at the time.
Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it
manage to keep standing if you just cut its legs off?
I've never seen this discussed anywhere which probably means everyone
else already knows and are probably thinking to themselves, "Dumb question."
Tony
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 4:21 Anthony E. Caudel [this message]
2006-10-11 4:42 ` [gentoo-user] Dumb question Troy Curtis Jr
2006-10-11 6:20 ` Nick Rout
2006-10-11 18:05 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-10-11 18:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-11 6:30 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-11 8:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-11 7:44 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-10-11 16:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-10-11 17:43 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-10-12 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-12 6:17 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-12 6:22 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-12 6:42 ` PaulNM
2006-10-12 7:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-12 11:55 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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