On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:

> On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>> Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-
>>> of-gnu-patch-2-6
>>>
>>>
>> <sigh>
>>
>> I emerged patch-2.60 when it hit ~amd64 then downgraded it 10 days later
>> when
>> a report on b.g.o. showed it was affecting OOo.
>>
>> Right in the middle of those 10 days, I ran this:
>>
>> emerge -e world
>>
>> </sigh>
>>
>
> Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too.  I emerged patch-2.6 on
> November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages.
>  After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, including all of
> KDE4, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice.
>
> Quite amazing how much damage a bug in a small package like this can have
> on a source-based distro...
>

For which reason I'm quite happy to be running stable except for specific
package releases that I put in package.unmask.  Patch-2.6 has been ~x86 all
along, so I've been running 2.5.9 continuously since March of 2008.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD