Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:53:46
Message-Id: B5B7DC65-51FC-4457-88A0-173C1B21DFA5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 17/5/2011, at 4:52pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > ...
3 > What you want to do is: find the bug.
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5 Or, y'know: just `emerge -e world` and see if it goes away.
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7 I know this is a bit of brute force & ignorance, but:
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9 1) if the bug goes away when you recompile everything then it was a difficult bug to reproduce, anyway (at least relatively speaking) and it's not clear how many other people you'll help by understanding and reporting such a "transient" issue.
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11 2) if the bug persists after recompiling everything then you know that it's possible to reproduce it, there's a higher possibility that the bug will affect other people, and you can usefully report it upstream, once you pin it down.
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13 Stroller.