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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:12:09
Message-Id: 200912021711.11976.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mittwoch 02 Dezember 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:45:21 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 > > Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too. I emerged patch-2.6 on
4 > > November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages.
5 > > After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, including
6 > > all of KDE4, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice.
7 >
8 > KDE 4.3.4 went into ~amd64 today, so that had to be merged anyway (unless
9 > you're using kde-testing). I did an emerge -e world on my netbook at the
10 > weekend, so that needs a rebuild now :(
11 >
12
13 and somewhere in between updating kde it downgraded patch..
14
15 404 packages to go (hmm.. interessting number).
16
17 Thanks for the warning, Nikos.