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 1P9ccR-0007Mt-Ok for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:50:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B91E2E0781; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EAACE0781 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so2287308ywa.40 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:50:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=BkAwS885qCTOzg3W4fWFlIwLxBmzsj4x3oxfHDWb+vU=; b=JhKhCAN6EaT2QMm9/7+Fwi46F4IJoXTxKlb1zYffifr9KRM0sURA/b9Dc5EFU+t8JV ReBNGfKS7oJmQBBGdopPbKMmAGzxhuW5azMiC4c2JSe4ZWSndQo3tueBjNelsa+opRf9 wd5cYUX3jnptJ4Ua1NgvzobywWFPThuNR1Bwk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=CjrNzBw+RfJXWtRDsN0msd3jC/W9DSyXFp/D9j7azyC4bPeqGFIXUM1ePCW2ipWlsv eO29bH3Q72UbDiKxshmrhLCKXfDben3iev+rTuogvDX/MGHAqiIx7rt7MEluaiZk34GA wlGxVVwJ+XPiqu72t/ercP631l2Rb6rj/M4tE= 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 Received: by 10.42.21.68 with SMTP id j4mr2847210icb.476.1287834608199; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.166.202 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:50:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201010222244.02415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <4CBC1C21.2020202@taydin.org> <20101018114510.0931f3cd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <201010222244.02415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:50:08 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated From: daid kahl To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: bec8f2cc-6afc-45a1-8dfc-e44768812722 X-Archives-Hash: 0c33858b490cb09497abc756554980a4 > Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this > automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if > not just > > emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow > > then emerge -avuND world. > > No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting it over and > done with while you watch and confirm it works fine. Then do world and wander > over to the kettle letting portage go on with doing it's thing unattended For my own comfort, on a case like this, if I didn't have the portage FEATURE buildpkg or buildsyspkg turned on, I'd make sure that was on and that I had a functional backup of shadow to install from binary, in case something went very wrong. But I tend to be extremely cautious in terms of how I maintain my system, and a lot of that caution is just paranoia. ~daid