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 1P9ehf-0001JN-5X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:04:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 015E8E07AE for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC6CE0743 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4a59b202.dyn.optonline.net [74.89.178.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9NDC0t7004973 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:12:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id ADA87700ED; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:12:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated References: <4CBC1C21.2020202@taydin.org> <20101018114510.0931f3cd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <201010222244.02415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:12:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: (daid kahl's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:50:08 +0900") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 42526544-c637-4b89-b025-31c37f1df4ff X-Archives-Hash: c329bcb962b80d7638e8217fbf3f9761 daid kahl writes: >> 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. Thanks for the advice. I do use quickpkg as well. allan