091202 Nikos Chantziaras 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 >> 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 '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...
2 pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
