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 3802413800E for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 00:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B56B0E06D7; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 00:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f53.google.com (mail-vb0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56829E08D5 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 00:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbfc26 with SMTP id fc26so134265vbb.40 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:26:43 -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=ImkZC0Gv4R3lv3zXumR0vmKqk4klpdv3J+75g9FTpx4=; b=orRqHOVcFR35GyT0i4y/vDlrE6V734fMjo45SnHyb8kula2F7PeVuCJK9a6XGPtXIN RRqv/3gvEPRzN8TDDIjmDXpPXfn1EZart1lltOaz7cq9XlIj5ZUREqMtq2+w/gm5H8Y1 CvlGvocKAeCzujA675MyFwqBKu24fRxwQTqONyzE0e6XHaExSGgkXyWu1K3wa/RyZtuR 4ioIa8eRs6arXWlZzEahWd+EvY1+0eovCAYHQNTHDxX/qGYHS/FAGh8ymVV8Wfs52Qu/ ES2mJ6ZVVbH5fO1UgwuSxDEUtImpUeLmGhmCNCkIsjCuKmn1o6eZvZqysiGyWXk73Qlw 7Y3w== 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 10.58.68.4 with SMTP id r4mr11013992vet.21.1343953603836; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.114.197 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:26:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120803021317.337b9ad5@khamul.example.com> References: <501ADE89.7010901@gmail.com> <501AF122.20107@gmail.com> <501AFF93.40400@gmail.com> <20120803021317.337b9ad5@khamul.example.com> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:26:43 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one. From: Alecks Gates To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: b1e95fb4-f902-4681-aa80-df474ceecb20 X-Archives-Hash: aeea3b33b8a0e0f83359fe52d11f9413 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill >> level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not >> for others.(me) >> >> I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get >> to stable, if that is even possible. > > Hmmmm, yeaaaaaahhh, I don't think so, he's a newbie > > I once switched a host from unstable to stable and I sweated blood > and bricks to do it. IIRC correctly it involved a whole lot of manual > package masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking > emerge output. > > It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a > pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try! > > What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for > 6 months and let stable catch up to unstable. Not ideal from a security > update POV, but better than nothing > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckinnon@gmail.com > > I'd have to agree with you, Alan. I tried switching from unstable to stable once (and I'm still a newbie, so I was even more of a newb when I tried) -- I just ended up reinstalling to keep my mind from melting. This was on a standard Desktop/Gnome system, of course.