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On Friday 07 July 2006 21:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: |
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> Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that "emerge" |
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> is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone |
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> commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma |
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> !!)... if someone updates portage won't be able to update it again |
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> because it will fail ever and ever again... So I suggest to have a |
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> backuped emerge script that we are sure that worked (like the last |
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> emerge tool that was used), and if the new emerge tool is mistaken (so |
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> that user doesn't need to know python) only has to run "regenemerge" for |
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> example, and will have the latest emerge working tool. |
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once upon a time, there was a portage-rescue.... |
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seems, that it is gone (why?) but you can still find it here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~carpaski/portage_rescue/ |
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