On 06/01/22 17:47, Mikey wrote: > On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:56, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > > That's not really what you want. > > > > -s updates might (will) be overlaid with version or revision bumps > > > > from time to time, for this to be of any use it has to happen at the > > > > resolver level (visiblity filter). > > > > > > "Normal" emerges would take -s2 over -r1 or -s1. The change is > > > transparent when not in "glsa-only" mode. > > > > You didn't understand what I said. If you just play around with the > > output info you'll miss updates. > > How will I miss updates? "Standard" actions (system world) or myfiles would > work the exact same as they do now, they just consider a new revbump > specifier in the digraph calculation. > > The "non-standard" action that I am proposing, call it "emerge glsa-only", > would take the output from emerge -Du world and filter out anything from > the resulting package list except for -s packages. I will only "miss" > updates that are not strictly security related. If there is no > security-only related update, i.e. I have to upgrade to the next version, > glsa-check will report it and I will have to manually update.
The problem with your reasoning is that portage only reports the "highest" upgrade (from it's point of view). So if you have package A-1.0 installed and two possible upgrades, say A-1.0-s1 and A-1.1, then portage will chose the "highest" of the two. So the output from that command would be: | These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: | | Calculating world dependencies ...done! | [ebuild U ] the-cat/A-1.1 [1.0] ...... It will not output the following: | These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: | | Calculating world dependencies ...done! | [ebuild U ] the-cat/A-1.0-s1 [1.0] ...... So you _will_ miss upgrades if you only filter the output of emerge in your solution and expect to get all security related upgrades relating to the package you're using. -- / Patrick Börjesson \ ------------------- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats.
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