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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:26:39
Message-Id: 4F0339FB.80504@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 14:55:38 Michael Mol wrote:
3 >> Michael Mol wrote:
4 >>> Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
5 >>>> On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
6 >>>>> On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
7 >>>>>> Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
8 >>>>>> through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to
9 >>>>>> uninstall anything to do that level of investigation.
10 >>>>>> revdep-rebuild -I is also useful, although more historically than
11 >>>>>> now.
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>> This was essentially Michal Mol's suggestion, and I gave an
14 >>>>> example where it would remove something important.
15 >>>>>
16 >>>>>> Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address really
17 >>>>>> knowing what your system is running and why. Get to the root of
18 >>>>>> that and the --update thing becomes the non-issue that many of us
19 >>>>>> think it is.
20 >>>>>
21 >>>>> This would be a suggestion to travel back in time and document
22 >>>>> something that I have no way of knowing now.
23 >>>>
24 >>>> You could create your own overlay with "meta"-ebuilds, e. g.
25 >>>> system-maintenance, customer1, customer2.
26 >>>> Inside the ebuilds you define depends on the packages the customer
27 >>>> wants. Doing so you could wipe everything except the "meta"-ebuilds
28 >>>> from world. When a customer quits you can unmerge his or her
29 >>>> "meta"-ebuild and depclean.
30 >>>> If you add everything needed to the respective "meta"-ebuild, you'll
31 >>>> always be on the safe side.
32 >>>
33 >>> Getting EnigMail set up on a Seamonkey/Win7 box, and Enigmail is
34 >>> complaining that your signature is unverified. I don't know/understand
35 >>> PGP/GPG all that well, but I think this is something you're supposed to
36 >>> be able to fix on your end. If that's not the case, let me know, and
37 >>> I'll get it fixed on my end. :)
38 >>>
39 >>> gpg command line and output:
40 >>> C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe
41 >>> gpg: Signature made 01/03/12 09:05:56 using RSA key ID 8D16461C
42 >>> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
43 >>
44 >> Doh...that was supposed to go directly to Hinnerk. "Reply to sender
45 >> only" my hind leg...
46 >
47 > Looks like a recently created gpg key. Assuming the owner has uploaded it to
48 > a public key server, it seems likely that it has not propagated across the
49 > public servers yet and your enigmail plugin alerts you about it.
50
51 Found most of the problem; Enigmail defaulted to an empty "automatically
52 download keys for signature vereification from the following keyserver"
53 field. Fixed that, and things started working a little better. (Herr Van
54 Bruinehsen's key doesn't seem to have propagated, yes, but now yours
55 works fine. :) )