Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-09 Thread Roy Wright
Thanks for the extension (checking for ewarn & eerror). I'm still getting a handle on gentoo ;-) I borrowed a portage.cron script from off of this list and run it under cron.daily. One of my changes to the script is to run einfo (I also pull down the files so they are ready for compile after I r

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Roy Wright
Here's a perl script to display the einfo lines of packages to be merged. Just run it with the same options you will use for emerge. Example: einfo -uDN world >einfo.txt emerge -uDN world less einfo.txt You will probably want to save the output to refer to after emerging. Enjoy, Roy #!/

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:38 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > This is one reason you should not do auto-updates via cron. It adds to > the fun in tracking down such problems. It wasn't cron. I did the emerge prior to heading off to bed. Perhaps a good thing would be when the emerge -uDpv world output

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is one reason you should not do auto-updates via cron. It adds to the fun in tracking down such problems. I also wish that emerges would stop whenever a message like this is printed to the screen, but people have been cursing/moaning and getting caught with dead systems by this bug for lit

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Zac Medico
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > It didn't catch everything. Right now I'm recompiling xscreensaver. > revdep-rebuild didn't catch everything? Do we know why? I wouldn't want that to happen to me ;-). > The thing which I'm talking about is, if there are _specific_ caveats > such as with this new app,

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
[Changed Subject. , should be com_err and not ss] On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:04 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > If you guys did a emerge -uDav world anytime these past few days. I'm > > sure you'll be hit by the libcom_err.so.3 error. > > > > This was really bad. Ruined half my w