Re: [gentoo-server] grub ebuild

[Andrew Gaffney]

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Jeremy Brake wrote:
>> Is it just my imagination, or does bind keep upgrading and downgrading
>> in portage?  its getting irritating.

This a "bug" in portage that has been known about for a long time. Fixing it 
would take at least a partial rewrite of the dep resolver. Basically, there is a 
newer version of some package that was installed as a dependency, but another 
package DEPENDs on a version of the first package less than the newest. Portage 
doesn't know not to upgrade that 2nd package, even though an older version is 
required by some other package.

> I wasn't very amused with the breaking of Apache conf files, either.
> That's poor package mainatenanceship.

The apache config files weren't *broken*. They were fixed. They are now a whole 
heck of a lot closer to the way a vanilla apache setup has them. There was talk 
of that happening over a year before it happened. There was a warning that went 
out to a few mailing lists a week before the new apache went stable.

> I was installing Gentoo on a new desktop system they gave me at work
> last night and was surprised to find that Stage 1 and Stage 2 installs are
> no longer supported and that users are instructed not to do them.

The reason they are no longer *officially* supported is because many users would 
not read the documentation, do things wrong, and file bugs. This happened a 
*lot*. The stage 1 and 2 install instructions were removed from the handbook to 
cut down on the flood of invalid bugs.

There is nothing stopping you from doing a stage 1 or 2 install. Just don't 
expect help if it breaks. Also, stage 2 installs are quite pointless.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project

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