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On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:58:40 Michael Higgins wrote: |
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> Here's an example of a (possibly) useless log warning. I say useless |
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> because I don't know (how would I?) whether this was updated from version |
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> 0.30 or not. |
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> I get these kinds of messages regularly. Sometimes, I say, "right. I did |
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> that last week, why is it telling me again?". |
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> How do others know if a warning applies after any system/world update? |
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> LOG: postinst |
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> The database format has changed between 0.30 and 0.40. |
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> You may need to update all your local databases and caches. |
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> To do so, please run the following commands: |
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> (for each user) $ update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime/ |
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> (as root) # update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/ |
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portage doesn't have a mechanism to tell you to do something and then record |
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that you did in fact do it. So it always tells you to do something. |
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We often attempt to ascribe human intelligence to software. |
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It's a side-effect of being human. Be alert for it :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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