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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
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: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:46:39
Message-Id: 20091207224618.GA4774@ca.inter.net
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 091207 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:49:44 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> I know that from my home-made list of pkgs which I have installed,
4 >> where they are marked with 'W' & system pkgs with 'S'.
5 >> Yes, I do have to keep it upto-date as I do emerges.
6 >> One of the major deficiencies of Gentoo is
7 >> that it doesn't provide such a file automatically.
8 > emerge -p @system
9 > emerge -p @world
10
11 root:501 ~> emerge -p @system
12 !!! '@system' is not a valid package atom.
13 !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
14 root:502 ~> emerge -p @world
15 !!! '@world' is not a valid package atom.
16 !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
17
18 'man 5 ebuild' has nothing relevant to '@' 'system' 'world' '-p'.
19 I'm using the latest stable Portage-2.1.6.3 .
20
21 Any further advice ?
22
23 Let me emphasise yet again: the way I do things has been successful
24 on 2 machines for more than 6 years; it's others who have problems
25 doing it their way & regularly seek advice on this list as a result.
26
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29 SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb
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