Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-07-03 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:51:52 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:58:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: How do others know if a warning applies after any system/world update? LOG: postinst The database format has changed between 0.30 and 0.40. You

[gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Here's an example of a (possibly) useless log warning. I say useless because I don't know (how would I?) whether this was updated from version 0.30 or not. I get these kinds of messages regularly. Sometimes, I say, right. I did that last week, why is it telling me again?. How do others know

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:58:40 Michael Higgins wrote: Here's an example of a (possibly) useless log warning. I say useless because I don't know (how would I?) whether this was updated from version 0.30 or not. I get these kinds of messages regularly. Sometimes, I say, right. I did that

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:58:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: How do others know if a warning applies after any system/world update? LOG: postinst The database format has changed between 0.30 and 0.40. You may need to update all your local databases and caches. To do so, please run the

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Philip Webb
090630 Alan McKinnon wrote: We often attempt to ascribe human intelligence to software. It's a side-effect of being human. Be alert for it :-) One for my commonplace book (smile) ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip