Am 28.08.2015 um 15:19 schrieb walt: > I avoided yesterday's downgrade from ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-5.9-r4 > because it was obviously(?) a mistake. > > This morning I just upgraded(?) ncurses-6.0 to ncurses-6.0-r1 and > immediately after doing that, portage wants to downgrade(?) from > 6.0-r1 back to 6.0. > > This comedy of errors would be funny if it weren't emblematic of the > larger and very scary problem we all face in real life: computers now > dominate every aspect of everything we do and what is expected of us by > our employers, friends, family, and our government. (I refer to the > government here in the US. Your government may vary.) > > Note that /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/Changelog was last updated on > April 6, several months ago. > > Rhetorical question: what is the purpose of a Changelog? Or any log, > anywhere, like the captain's log on an oil tanker, for example, or an > airliner, or in the IT department of the bank where your life savings > are stored. Who last rebooted that server, and why? > > Who last updated ncurses, and why? Yes, I looked at the ebuild, which > cites a bug report, which may or may not serve as the log I'm asking > for, but doesn't this all seem too complicated to work smoothly for > years without frequent fsck-ups? > > Now I have to go to work and face exactly the same fsck-ups there that > I face when I update my gentoo machines, and that puts me in a bad mood. > > > > > . >
*shrug* preserved-libs and ncurses update went well. No problems here. And since I am not a compulsive updater, I had no problems today either.
