On Mon, 09 May 2005 10:20:23 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >So "emerge --oneshot shadow" should restore things to their defaults.
> Setting the setuid bit on /bin/su and /bin/login fixed my login > problems. I'm tried this suggestion and it worked. However I don't > quite understand exactly what the "oneshot" option does. The man page > says: > > Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world profile for > later updating. That's it. When you emerge a package, the package is added to your world file, but any dependencies that are emerged are not. So the world file contains only those packages that you explicitly want, not their dependencies. Whenever I re-emerge anything I always use --oneshot, on the basis that if it belongs in world, it is already there and if it doesn't, I don't want to spoil things by adding it now. shadow is a clear example of this, as it is a package you would never install manually (in fact it is part of system). -- Neil Bothwick Groucho Borg: "That's the silliest thing I ever assimilated..."
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