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On Saturday 16 August 2003 17:59, Karsten Schulz wrote: |
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> *After* rsyncing, but *before* building the cache, emerge should create a |
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> statical version of app-admin/security/security-VERSION.ebuild with the |
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> dependencies corresponding to the current system and the correct version. |
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> After creating this ebuild, the cache could be build and an emerge -p |
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> security will show the needed updates. That seems to me a few lines of |
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> python code and an introduction of the new GLSA file. |
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> How is that? |
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Why not just having a utility (or integrate it into emerge) that scans all |
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installed packages, compares them with the list and tries to update those |
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that are with an ebuild in the same slot. If there is no such ebuild it |
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issues a warning. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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