On Monday 25 December 2006 04:48, "Andrey Gerasimenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': > You want to update world and, at the same time, not to update anything. > I can understand that if your goal is not to "update world", as Portage > thinks when you say "-u world", but to install only bug and sequrity > fixes, as Portage does if you mask pakeges properly.
Well, if you put some work into defining exactly what package versions would want installed. > As far as I > remember, according to this list some work to treat sequrity updates > differently is under way. As for bug fixes, I do not see how they can be > separated from features. glsa-check from gentoolkit(?) should tell you exactly what packages to mask/upgrade to get security fixes, while bug fixes are currently handled exactly the same way a feature additions (generally upstream doesn't differentiate between these two changes either -- sometimes the y in x.y.z is for feature additions (with the z for bug fixes) but this isn't really consistent). Gentoo-specific bug fixes are either an in-place change to the ebuild (no version bump) or a bump of the revision (-r1) number, which is independent of upstream (and should nearly universally be installed). -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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