A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure updated software has taken effect on your machine. Gentoo makes it easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly updated software is actually running in place of the old version? The concensus seemed to be that there are really only two ways to do this:
1. know enough about the updated software that, if necessary, you can run the appropriate commands to make it take effect or: 2. reboot Neither of these seem practical to me. What about a new Gentoo feature that either: 1. keeps track of what needs to be done for each update to take effect and can report whether or not that has been done since updating (probably not so good) or: 2. reports what version of installed software is actually running and it's up to the user to figure out what needs to be done if installed and running software versions do not match (probably better) What do you think? - Grant -- [email protected] mailing list
