[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given:
>>
>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-
>> of-gnu-patch-2-6
>>
>
> <sigh>
>
> I emerged patch-2.60 when it hit ~amd64 then downgraded it 10 days later when
> a report on b.g.o. showed it was affecting OOo.
>
> Right in the middle of those 10 days, I ran this:
>
> emerge -e world
>
> </sigh>

Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too.  I emerged patch-2.6 on 
November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages. 
  After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, including 
all of KDE4, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice.

Quite amazing how much damage a bug in a small package like this can 
have on a source-based distro...