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On 26-06-2011 14:31:12 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> > Hmmm, except that portage-2.2 isn't stable yet... indeed it isn't even |
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> > out of alpha yet. Not going to unleash that on my production systems. |
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> Besides portage-2.2 still being unstable, preserved-libs "solves" the |
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> problem by keeping outdated, buggy and potentially security compromised |
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> libraries around. |
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Uhm, yeah, but it's better when you can actually reemerge python |
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(immediately) after an openssl upgrade, than that you have to hack |
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portage's includes not to attempt to load ssl stuff IMO. |
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> revdep-rebuild OTOH, has a more straightforward approach, simply |
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> detecting binaries that depended on now-absent libs and rebuilding them |
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> to depend on what's currently available instead. |
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Yup, but when the library is already gone, you sometimes cannot run the |
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necessary tools any more. Funny one is bash, for instance. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |