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Am 28.08.2015 um 15:19 schrieb walt: |
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> I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4 |
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> because it was obviously(?) a mistake. |
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> This morning I just upgraded(?) ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-6.0-r1 and |
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> immediately after doing that, portage wants to downgrade(?) from |
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> 6.0-r1 back to 6.0. |
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> This comedy of errors would be funny if it weren't emblematic of the |
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> larger and very scary problem we all face in real life: computers now |
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> dominate every aspect of everything we do and what is expected of us by |
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> our employers, friends, family, and our government. (I refer to the |
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> government here in the US. Your government may vary.) |
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> Note that /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/Changelog was last updated on |
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> April 6, several months ago. |
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> Rhetorical question: what is the purpose of a Changelog? Or any log, |
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> anywhere, like the captain's log on an oil tanker, for example, or an |
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> airliner, or in the IT department of the bank where your life savings |
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> are stored. Who last rebooted that server, and why? |
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> Who last updated ncurses, and why? Yes, I looked at the ebuild, which |
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> cites a bug report, which may or may not serve as the log I'm asking |
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> for, but doesn't this all seem too complicated to work smoothly for |
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> years without frequent fsck-ups? |
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> Now I have to go to work and face exactly the same fsck-ups there that |
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> I face when I update my gentoo machines, and that puts me in a bad mood. |
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*shrug* preserved-libs and ncurses update went well. No problems here. |
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And since I am not a compulsive updater, I had no problems today either. |
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