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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 |
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> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill |
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>> level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not |
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>> for others.(me) |
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>> I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get |
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>> to stable, if that is even possible. |
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> Hmmmm, yeaaaaaahhh, I don't think so, he's a newbie |
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> I once switched a host from unstable to stable and I sweated blood |
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> and bricks to do it. IIRC correctly it involved a whole lot of manual |
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> package masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking |
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> emerge output. |
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> It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a |
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> pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try! |
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> What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for |
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> 6 months and let stable catch up to unstable. Not ideal from a security |
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> update POV, but better than nothing |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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I'd have to agree with you, Alan. I tried switching from unstable to |
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stable once (and I'm still a newbie, so I was even more of a newb when |
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I tried) -- I just ended up reinstalling to keep my mind from melting. |
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This was on a standard Desktop/Gnome system, of course. |
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