From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ky6FE-0008QO-QM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:54:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CE8CE046C; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF2AE046C for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so671580rvf.46 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:53:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ELPks75W8pT/1p7O1L4nDmnESG5Aaio6YOEb6AcI3YE=; b=m5Q2DrxoohriW7+Xp9PmVV4ynWNbtoM5fSRQNvFwT3XrJtWyi/PzJaAhiKrTHWJBYs +JyeWY6NYnZMAtO3ZzYDHMMvRM8e7jc6JpzceYSzc/XtAvGT5TnD2y96FNOOXTLz6Gzr cELdncd2XemN0GW+VeoFiXCs26n2SwpcVaG1w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=omLFuOPZ0QbxejOf3W+tDn1m9iCqr+U4II7t/xITD8L3UKir7RjTGtf99aG4yHXd3y azA+It5jZvR6D/LjGcJqaH1sCJrGdm+KeAVJ0DXusygdMy0H4ZdHThkZ1UE8LDtbMkI5 cNWEL0Gg4dL3KCYBZcB51axE0uwQ+3gWDh610= Received: by 10.140.165.21 with SMTP id n21mr1233267rve.240.1225983238503; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.90.158? (dialup-4.231.90.158.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.90.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f42sm2165095rvb.6.2008.11.06.06.53.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:53:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491304F4.1000006@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:53:40 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080928 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK? References: <200811060749.32775.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <49129AF6.7070907@konstantinhansen.de> <200811060847.31379.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> In-Reply-To: <200811060847.31379.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8bbe2d68-d117-4c6a-8b0f-5f7f30eea1dc X-Archives-Hash: 818bc9d937555c1f96c045127c315eb3 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag 06 November 2008 08:21:26 schrieb ext KH: > > >> Well that's the point. You want to get rid of them. So you are unmerging >> them. The moment something fails after unmerging and before emerging the >> new packages, you will be very happy to have your old packages. You just >> put them pack in place and you have a running system again. It's a >> seatbelt. >> > > That's why > > 1) I use paludis, no seatbelts required. One can safely de-install com_err and > ss _after_ upgrading e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs. > > 2) I outlined to first emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs. It's known that wget > will fail after unmerging com_err, so the new packages need to be fetched > first. That's all. No need to make the thing more complicated than it is. > > Bye... > > Dirk > But not everyone uses paludis. So those that don't do it this way. I agree it is the safest way. Dale :-) :-)