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 1SWUyi-0008AD-Od for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 15:57:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 476F5E08AF; Mon, 21 May 2012 15:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f181.google.com (mail-gg0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DAFE079E for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 15:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnv5 with SMTP id v5so5312292ggn.40 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 08:55:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=7c2+dKIyKBEs3SSJjB5H0kZtNL2PumvR7gs1dI9C63s=; b=V0Khk5TYV2qSCWrAFLW4qmZwEVCILvwtxOWkCQ4UiHrYI73qNNFvbGMHrgTPpC+4/N 8a6lfzSJg+7vo9kBljx8OeonqBsVNgLwLaEbPolUaXF2o4L6Erd8SIsnGb/CumQxWw2s XOd+qGLIIHzg+DM7k4vM8dF63dKGRdpV0xxW3l9eFM7N1qU1+kmG3+Unlv/+OrdZUmOI wNxmdPcRF0suTBqgk2u5P99F4u8j1qGW74rIQTEik24c10wuJamhML8bf1CeY39faDyE 2arN0pjMQTBJMysdhUMaJXCGWMHyXwhFvy+7sVluh5tj/pwdCzOi18bW/qw7Omdx02Nh hbig== 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 10.50.104.167 with SMTP id gf7mr2646805igb.38.1337615725092; Mon, 21 May 2012 08:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.81.100 with HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2012 08:55:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:55:25 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] skype package changes I don't understand From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a9d0217e-9edc-48ec-a434-97615ffdbafc X-Archives-Hash: da3e0581713ab8c91106f9d7904079a4 On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I love my Gentoo-devs, but what is the train of thought here? >> skype-2.2.0.35-r1 was ~amd64 yesterday. It's installed and working >> fine. Today 2.2.0.35-r99 is ~amd64, which is perfectly fine, but >> they've completely removed -r1 and now I'm required to unmask >> emulation packages that only came out today? That doesn't seem quite >> right... >> >> Why did they completely get rid of -r1? That should stick around for a >> little while after -r99 becomes ~amd64, shouldn't it? >> >> - Mark > > -r1 had a security problem. You should unmask the emulation packages > and continue the update process. Look at the ChangeLog so see what > changed. Both versions are ~amd64 so I don't understand your complain > about keeping -r1 in the tree for a while. > > Markos > Thanks Markos. That's likely what I'll do, although the alternative I'm looking at for now is possibly getting -r1 from an overlay. I didn't think I was _complaining_. I was just asking what the train of thought was that leads them to do this sort of thing. Everything in the world has a security problem. We know they are either found or not found. Unmasking 8 emulation libraries that have _yesterdays_ date in their names, and therefore makes them quite new, may: 1) Create more security problems 2) Create issues with other programs that use the libraries. Anyway, thanks for the response. I'll either unmask or use an overlay. Cheers, Mark