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A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure |
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updated software has taken effect on your machine. Gentoo makes it |
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easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly |
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updated software is actually running in place of the old version? The |
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concensus seemed to be that there are really only two ways to do this: |
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1. know enough about the updated software that, if necessary, you can |
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run the appropriate commands to make it take effect |
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or: |
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2. reboot |
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Neither of these seem practical to me. What about a new Gentoo |
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feature that either: |
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1. keeps track of what needs to be done for each update to take effect |
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and can report whether or not that has been done since updating |
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(probably not so good) |
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or: |
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2. reports what version of installed software is actually running and |
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it's up to the user to figure out what needs to be done if installed |
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and running software versions do not match (probably better) |
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What do you think? |
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- Grant |
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