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On Thursday 10 January 2008, b.n. wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick ha scritto: |
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> > The expat upgrade was less than a year ago for stable systems. |
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> Sorry if hijacking the thread, but: it's a long time I have |
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> expat-1.9.6 and, even if 2.0.1 is in portage, emerge -av world |
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> doesn't tell me to upgrade (I guess emerge -Dav would, but why should |
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> I?). Should I do nonetheless, or can I wait? |
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I find emerge -uND world every so often is a good idea, as updates are |
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then incremental and I can deal with problems one at a time instead of |
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lots all at once. |
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I don't know of any good reason why you *should* upgrade to expat-2.0.1 |
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right now, other than simply staying up to date. Be prepared to become |
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good friends with revdep-rebuild when you *do* do it, the upgrade |
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caused huge numbers of broken linkages to libexpat.so.0 |
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alan |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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