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 4E7B713877A for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67F7CE0B4C; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B1D4E0AC3 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id k14so9272567wgh.32 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:13:59 -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=ZeIFUzK5LTTDqYSYOPIRdoddUj0EFUzLxJABaZL/LGk=; b=KfCfm2Y64lbSnMwBbJJ2re51BctdW4mviHLU4kN0qIKdlEVTxz8e0KkNN8KuB7n3Sb 8xtbEbd9IDptU6zdkD0oXdS0hdLgWa51J1JzrPymoV9WuyiG8k9sgjfQ4J9cVZeyjNdo n1vXwb4wLzqfWoVd8oBE2xBH0iOnwGYEhjC+7KdzAfWyV5rJtTyoxH7wS0ZRtAf/nXF8 H5ydYFrJ8moU1X51o0l3sGbCVkwyrUCfqQAh0cFNDe4HD2zm6BNr+fS5c90GMgQ7cyzk jcQkNs7IJR68Yp8klTUyouGtvncKWxFNp7CieKzzH3eazrwZFn49amVteL/utCp5DdDF L+YA== X-Received: by 10.194.108.41 with SMTP id hh9mr636197wjb.68.1407795239535; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-190-183.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.190.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j5sm4548729wjf.35.2014.08.11.15.13.58 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53E93FF1.80906@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:13:05 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 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] Lots of big updates... References: <53E793A5.90203@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <53E793A5.90203@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 328bf30d-2376-4f4c-9b63-f23a3fba92d3 X-Archives-Hash: 8293f4e4593f040373b0251ec741a22f On 10/08/2014 17:45, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I haven't updated in a little while, and am seeing a lot of big updates... > > The main ones that concern me are: > > perl (5.16 > 5.18) No problem other than you might have a bunch of blockers to resolve and of course perl-cleaner to run. Just keep cycling through it till it completes; preserved-rebuild will keep your system intact. All regular Gentoo stuff, nothing to be concerned about. Besides, if it breaks you know what to do (and no-one can really tell you about breakage in advance) > & > mariadb (5.5.37 > 10.0.12) No info > > and of course, I always worry about: > > glib (2.38.2-r1 > 2.40.0-r1) This is not a problem, but you keep raising it. glib is a bunch of helper functions and in no way related at all to glibc (an entirely different kettle of fish) > & > glibc (2.17 > 2.19-r1) No problem. There were no ABI changes to glibc for ages now > > Anyone have any warnings/caveats about these updates? > > Especially the mariadb update? I'm thinking about masking that one for a > while, just to be safe... Run it in your test environment and satisfy yourself first -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com