Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo for server

[Guðni Þ. Björgvinsson]

I forgot to cc to the mailing list.. sorry about that.

On þri, 2004-12-07 at 23:31 +0000, Guðni Þ. Björgvinsson wrote:
> Hello again. :-)
>
> If you want php 5.0.2 in gentoo, you've just got to use the masked
> ebuild.
>
> Then you would just do;
>
> echo "dev-php/php ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> And you would have the latest masked package of php 5.0.2 available to
> you. But remember, there is a reason why that package is masked.
>
> On mið, 2004-12-08 at 00:05 +0100, Simon Striker wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > In the first place I would like to thank everybody for writing a reply
> > to my mail and for all advices and "experiences"!
> >
> > When I wrote that all packages in Portage tree are not up to date, I
> > made a literary mistake, because I was thinking in my language and
> > wirting in English. I apologise for all the inconveniences! I wanted
> > to write that SOME of packages ...
> >
> > There was one example of available PHP packages in one of arrived
> > mails:
> >
> > *  dev-php/php :
> >         [   ] 4.3.8 (0)
> >         [ ~ ] 4.3.9_rc1 (0)
> >         [   ] 4.3.9 (0)
> >         [M  ] 5.0.0 (0)
> >         [ ~ ] 5.0.0-r1 (0)
> >         [ ~ ] 5.0.1 (0)
> >         [ ~ ] 5.0.2 (0)
> >         [  I] 5.0.2-r1 (0)
> >
> > What I wanted to tell was that if I emerged PHP, I could only emerged
> > the 4.3.9 (stable) version, but with other distro I could install the
> > new, 5.0.2 version ...
> >
> > From all your mails I realized that I do not need to install the
> > newest version of packages if I want to keep my server secure. I
> > noticed that it is just important to emerge the security/bug fixes. Am I
> > right?
> >
> > I have just decided that I will reinstall my server and install Gentoo
> > on it, but first I will read and study the following articles and some
> > threads on forum:
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/
> > http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml
> >
> >
> > Thanks again for your mails!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Simon
> > -------------
> >
> > Simon Striker
> > Rusjanov trg 2
> > 1000 Ljubljana      [phone]
> > Europe (Slovenia)
> >
> > E-mail: simon@×××××××××.net
> >
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Guðni Þ. Björgvinsson
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