On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: >>> >>> >>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear- >>> of-gnu-patch-2-6 >>> >>> >> <sigh> >> >> I emerged patch-2.60 when it hit ~amd64 then downgraded it 10 days later >> when >> a report on b.g.o. showed it was affecting OOo. >> >> Right in the middle of those 10 days, I ran this: >> >> emerge -e world >> >> </sigh> >> > > Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too. I emerged patch-2.6 on > November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages. > After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, including all of > KDE4, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice. > > Quite amazing how much damage a bug in a small package like this can have > on a source-based distro... > For which reason I'm quite happy to be running stable except for specific package releases that I put in package.unmask. Patch-2.6 has been ~x86 all along, so I've been running 2.5.9 continuously since March of 2008. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
