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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:22:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Where I get frustrated/ticked off/mad is when some independent |
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> > developer, or group of developers, simply decides to remove code on |
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> > **MY** machine and force me to make updates without giving me *ANY** |
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> > opportunity to make a choice. |
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> But they do, as long as you don't leave an unreasonably long time between |
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> syncs. emerge --sync warns you when your profile has been deprecated. |
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> Your problem is that the delay between syncs was such that you skipped |
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> the whole warning period, which should be a LONG time. |
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> > I get that the leading-edge developer/gamer mentality cannot get their |
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> > heads around having machines run for long, long periods of time - |
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> > years - but these machines do. |
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> Running a machine for a long time is fine, running it without checking |
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> for security updates is not. What's wrong with a weekly cron job that |
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> runs emerge --sync and glsa-check and emails you the results? |
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cron? I thought after all this time you knew who you're talking to Neil? |
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The security issue is valid, no matter what distribution. |
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I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. |
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I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room |
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somewhere. It hasn't been powered up in a long time. I log in and want |
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to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type |
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emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong. |
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As I say, I can get around the problem by simply copying absolutely |
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everything somewhere else to protect it. It just seems to me that's |
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not as slick as Gentoo really is. (And I think you know I LOVE this |
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distribution and have no desire to run anything else. My comments are |
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made ONLY in the hope that one day some developer will see the value |
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and look into some sort of change that would help with this. It's |
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happened to me with profiles, kernels, device drivers, lots of stuff. |
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It doesn't need to be an issue, or so I feel.) |
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Anyway, enough of this. thanks! |
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- Mark |
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