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 1Q47kb-0006K0-T4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:24:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A91F1C049; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15BB1C049 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so1978233vws.40 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:23:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=a7gFyF9AP3A1WnyGGO9bPWhGPL+3wn7AHFFkiHUYy5w=; b=usOLSRqWinlvr5PdC/D9JpPcGkLACp+xUIgP4R7IjcdtbTVFTprhG6aRxTLlcVMhKP YCZtJm1hQ8QwdVGMo8D0agYVmnZczUpsM180/SqTVKFeiHkWzWWI1/PAkQsIPFPW7jm9 zzONE3Qr2RKt62c3dxFrxUhscV8yrw8uPpYg0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=EBzkZCg05f/Fk3IGaKUc1/80b3M1twmLR1pavq7keNqELhscnDBAhtfdMoRDOx8JoY q07DWFXWXxcN5mpz9MAGfmNnQu8lFWoXfP0tXWN6WeRo/pMaqWYzM11xgzIdcVDwaPuz mewsq1bykS83zUAVBGwEEO4D5HNwJ0XPHQJh8= 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 10.52.65.52 with SMTP id u20mr4974722vds.309.1301300595267; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.193.132 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:23:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110327225430.16a7cb45@digimed.co.uk> References: <4D8F86FC.8080600@gmail.com> <20110327225430.16a7cb45@digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:23:15 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world From: JM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec50166a5ba19c5049f86a740 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 969c0645430861cebd88ad2404c3889e --bcaec50166a5ba19c5049f86a740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the troublesome packages? On 27 March 2011 22:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote: > > > You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing: > > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge --update --deep world > > That will update every package to the latest ~x86 version, and cause them > all to downgrade again the next time you emerge world. As this includes > packages that are both critical and hate being downgraded, like glibc, > this is a really bad idea. > > You would have to really hate someone to want to put them through this. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > "Meow" "Woof" Jeez, it's really raining today. > --bcaec50166a5ba19c5049f86a740 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You're right - could the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS be only used for the troubleso= me packages?

On 27 March 2011 22:54, Neil= Bothwick <neil@= digimed.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrot= e:

> You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing:
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=3D"~x86" emerge --update --deep world

That will update every package to the latest ~x86 version, and cause them all to downgrade again the next time you emerge world. As this includes
packages that are both critical and hate being downgraded, like glibc,
this is a really bad idea.

You would have to really hate someone to want to put them through this.


--
Neil Bothwick

"Meow" <SPLAT!> =A0"Woof" <SPLAT!> =A0 =A0J= eez, it's really raining today.

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