On Friday 07 July 2006 21:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that "emerge" > is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone > commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma > !!)... if someone updates portage won't be able to update it again > because it will fail ever and ever again... So I suggest to have a > backuped emerge script that we are sure that worked (like the last > emerge tool that was used), and if the new emerge tool is mistaken (so > that user doesn't need to know python) only has to run "regenemerge" for > example, and will have the latest emerge working tool.
once upon a time, there was a portage-rescue.... seems, that it is gone (why?) but you can still find it here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~carpaski/portage_rescue/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
