Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:16:22
Message-Id: 4B1B05B1.7090103@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:10:15 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Good catch Volker. I didn't notice that part. He needs to become very
6 >> familiar with the -1 option but even that is not good in every case.
7 >> If it is a package that needs to be in world, then that option
8 >> shouldn't be used either otherwise a --depclean would remove it.
9 >>
10 >
11 > He's updating, so packages that need to be in world are already there.
12 >
13 >
14
15 If he is using the command he typed in, his world file is going to be
16 huge. Read what he wrote again. He is doing the updates individually
17 without a -u or a -1 or anything else. That means every time he
18 updates, that package goes into the world file.
19
20 I'm hoping he typed that in wrong.
21
22 Dale
23
24 :-) :-)

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