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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: |
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>>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear- |
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>>> of-gnu-patch-2-6 |
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>> <sigh> |
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>> I emerged patch-2.60 when it hit ~amd64 then downgraded it 10 days later |
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>> when |
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>> a report on b.g.o. showed it was affecting OOo. |
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>> Right in the middle of those 10 days, I ran this: |
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>> emerge -e world |
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>> </sigh> |
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> Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too. I emerged patch-2.6 on |
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> November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages. |
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> After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, including all of |
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> KDE4, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice. |
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> Quite amazing how much damage a bug in a small package like this can have |
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> on a source-based distro... |
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For which reason I'm quite happy to be running stable except for specific |
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package releases that I put in package.unmask. Patch-2.6 has been ~x86 all |
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along, so I've been running 2.5.9 continuously since March of 2008. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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