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 1NGvLW-0003nI-LZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:10:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3D08E066E; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com (mail-yw0-f181.google.com [209.85.211.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6706E066E for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so3212304ywh.9 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:10:24 -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=PJ61baSZc0T+olMpaOVa86zrg8jTPRypHNpOq+YKa3A=; b=sLfKVO9EOj/pXynLwaGo0Z4HOajvbapNX2mWi1jil1ArozxnOmAvqcwE1I0aksxnSG yNrFfGBTO3q+cJCT5kyBRTge8vZXd7/C/H0NSmTK0wZpn8qu3o+eOO5tqSDxyUB1e1Yt o17uQ1HI8G/BO3tdwnjv5hiRGcPyHZVqhOjB4= 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=t15UAI3u72GEV18xBFHiQjlOuoJSBbYK9hncEXBK4gRi5ajPa9t4CdU7N3C9YYTnBg vYkA41W7QUCR6ZWOhQm7OSv2PYoeuXIc/h8KbYabEd8PXZ+CPFpiMWeDK8YxTAStcATR o4vuYcr6zO3QGvgYAEYKc1hjShyh1KuGNYID0= Received: by 10.90.255.1 with SMTP id c1mr6869249agi.115.1260022224286; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:10:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-240-57-115.jan.bellsouth.net [74.240.57.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1911363yxe.18.2009.12.05.06.10.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:10:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B1A69C7.3030608@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:10:15 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug References: <3ac129340912041502oac3e7d9o620a049b6141291@mail.gmail.com> <20091205051452.GB4840@ca.inter.net> <200912051431.16711.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912051431.16711.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f8cfa058-7cb4-4f27-9bbe-90e3ce19e571 X-Archives-Hash: 76d01c9726cfde9ffff4f3ced01c269a Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > >> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of >> 'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which >> have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is >> recommended, then individually 'emerge -pv ' & -- if all looks well >> -- 'emerge '. Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session >> (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to >> chaos >> with all the extra frantic labor which would result. >> > > which f*cks up world and is a very bad idea. Really, emmerging every single > package? 'world' is useless for you and cleaning unused deps a nightmare. > > Congratulation, you crippled your system. > > The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. Use it and a downgrade in case of > problems only takes seconds. > Good catch Volker. I didn't notice that part. He needs to become very familiar with the -1 option but even that is not good in every case. If it is a package that needs to be in world, then that option shouldn't be used either otherwise a --depclean would remove it. Dale :-) :-)