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On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:55, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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> [...] |
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> >> I'd hoped someone would have had the same or similar situation and |
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> >> error before posted piles of data... so no not meaningless. |
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> > Yes, meaningless; update world means the packages on YOUR machine, |
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> > matching YOUR arch and dependencies requires by YOUR use flags have been |
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> > changed. No one can relate to that without knowing all those settings, or |
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> > a simple list of the packages updated with "genlop --list --date |
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> > yesterday" |
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> Your repeating it ever louder does not make it so. update world |
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> conveys a major update of the entire OS, then follows a very specific |
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> error that I hoped someone would be able to identify. |
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> So no not meaningless, |
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> Were it actually meaningless no one would have been able to help. |
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> I was glad to supply any needed details. Your continued insistance on |
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> this appears to be more about opinion than fact. |
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The fact that we may sometimes be able to guess based on the error message |
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doesn't change the fact that saying you upgraded some packages without |
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stating which packages is entirely meaningless. If you would refuse to tell |
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us which then you might as well leave out the fact that you upgraded |
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anything. But it definitely is a lot easier if you just provided the output |
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of e.g. "genlop --list --date yesterday" as mentioned by Neil. Also the |
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purpose of Neil and I stating this isn't to make you or anyone else look bad |
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but rather to make it easier for everyone in the future... |
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Bo Andresen |
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