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 907EA13800E for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 04:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3000E0796; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 04:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE40E063F for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 04:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup19 with SMTP id up19so538939obb.40 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:25:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sR5oX1ahx6T/UonYAOuHHmryQOpKXiI0swKh9rP/k+k=; b=AwWVGEj5I7/9WF/3zvGJWqfoxmeGf/hK4TMnLvfAG4Day7nGfh5oSJ7dSBaRaIbiTb 4rwyyvKbJFLuGBcpsPHDCzqXD49Vtfeo901MouUmouTqUA00o0VFhek7zKJM2oAn4b4A uBtYTtoGqCdcu9aVxNiHYxh/9Xcdyz8D14F7WBpqjHKo75dqDX+0+McP6+t0Csc8Logq y4gMqBFjZM/XJozmLgCuOT0jVHu7rFMVfiyvVhEbrXGGQKJebcmkvqxn1714S3Dc6iwP 0K6hSSjqWipIOfGQrFpv/08Ju1YqwqrC6GGVEqHEqzIobzdfGrlf6SrVPkQ6CsjBCh1W ppHg== Received: by 10.60.172.101 with SMTP id bb5mr1015124oec.44.1343967934671; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.254] (ip70-173-7-31.lv.lv.cox.net. [70.173.7.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a9sm8448989obp.14.2012.08.02.21.25.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <501B52BB.6050706@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:25:31 -0700 From: Willie Matthews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120629 Thunderbird/13.0 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] I am tired of this one. References: <501ADE89.7010901@gmail.com> <501AF122.20107@gmail.com> <501AFF93.40400@gmail.com> <20120803021317.337b9ad5@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1c570e2f-13f7-4568-b486-a7634a39c592 X-Archives-Hash: 7bfc7c15a7c10fcaca9471b107364874 On 08/02/2012 05:26 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill >>> level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not >>> for others.(me) >>> >>> I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get >>> to stable, if that is even possible. >> Hmmmm, yeaaaaaahhh, I don't think so, he's a newbie >> >> I once switched a host from unstable to stable and I sweated blood >> and bricks to do it. IIRC correctly it involved a whole lot of manual >> package masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking >> emerge output. >> >> It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a >> pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try! >> >> What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for >> 6 months and let stable catch up to unstable. Not ideal from a security >> update POV, but better than nothing >> >> -- >> Alan McKinnon >> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com >> >> > I'd have to agree with you, Alan. I tried switching from unstable to > stable once (and I'm still a newbie, so I was even more of a newb when > I tried) -- I just ended up reinstalling to keep my mind from melting. > This was on a standard Desktop/Gnome system, of course. > Yeah I don't know if I really want to take the time to reset up entire machine again. It is not only my XBMC machine but it is all my network services and routes the internet. I think I like the idea that Alan has, switch the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and not update for a couple of months. -- Willie Matthews matthews.willie@gmail.com