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Jason Stubbs posted <200512240406.05350.jstubbs@g.o>, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:06:05 +0900: |
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>> You are /sure/ the new code won't screw anything of that sort up, right? |
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>> Maybe that's the reason nobody seems to have been around to know about. |
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>> It just sounds like it /could/ be dangerous to me. For some reason, I |
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>> don't like the idea of something that could hose a system that badly! =8^\ |
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> *Please* don't tell me you run ~arch. |
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Well, I do, plus some stuff from package.mask like gcc-4.x and the |
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associated binutils and glibc stuff. |
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OTOH, I have long run a working and a backup snapshot version of the |
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system portions of my system (everything that packages normally touch), |
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for this very reason -- I'm running unstable, so I should be prepared to |
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boot to the backup if the main system gets hosed, either by my |
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fat-fingering or that of someone else. |
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Still, the last glibc upgrade was more "exciting" than I had anticipated, |
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even if DO say if I wanted boring and reliable, I'd be doing household |
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appliances, not computers. <g> (I'm proud to say I handled it without |
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having to resort to a reboot or the backups, tho... if only because I |
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happened to have an mc instance running in another vt at the time, and I |
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was able to use it to restore enough symlinks manually, to read the |
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documentation, figure out what happened, and restore the others by copying |
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them out of the binpkg.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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