From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F4WLC-0003LZ-SN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:45:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k124gjxI000205; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 04:42:45 GMT Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k124bWh4031843 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 04:37:32 GMT Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id c2so23078ugf for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:37:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=CDZMw9Y3fAW6eH2dZhEWX97jkOMuHqkL8hzGDm+oIlTd96mGq5ijO/oSXrAPvnNgnVrI8caGGpzWTw2gb/CpB0e3TTgi+HmHfdHR40Fs5a/WlIhHnuOpzkbGBjJRPmI5pAMFTKGDd+CgS+Otgo+6shFef7GKK3HHUTxvyvF/99U= Received: by 10.48.232.6 with SMTP id e6mr2415nfh; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.95.20 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:37:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49bf44f10602012037v75280c71t7625dd0db6be5c94@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:37:31 -0800 From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k124bWh4031843 X-Archives-Salt: f4e43e00-c314-474b-8df0-3a138a759450 X-Archives-Hash: f5d5821f4e6116147024e3e675da04e8 A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure updated software has taken effect on your machine. Gentoo makes it easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly updated software is actually running in place of the old version? The concensus seemed to be that there are really only two ways to do this: 1. know enough about the updated software that, if necessary, you can run the appropriate commands to make it take effect or: 2. reboot Neither of these seem practical to me. What about a new Gentoo feature that either: 1. keeps track of what needs to be done for each update to take effect and can report whether or not that has been done since updating (probably not so good) or: 2. reports what version of installed software is actually running and it's up to the user to figure out what needs to be done if installed and running software versions do not match (probably better) What do you think? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list