Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 05/11/2018 17:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2018-11-04, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 03/11/2018 16:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>> The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version > >>> number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify users > >>> by a NEWS item, that I can see. > >> > >> Emerge will catch this, no need for revbump. Unless you're not using -D > >> (--deep) when updating world. Which you should. > > > > What do you mean "catch this"? > > > > I always use -D, and the change broke my system. > > I mean that a USE flag change will trigger a rebuild of the package -D will not cause USE flag changes to trigger a rebuild of a package. You're thinking of --newuse in this particular case. I'm not sure if --changed-use would cause a rebuild if the previous flag was defaulted to enabled and not explicitly enabled (of course, if it were explicitly enabled you wouldn't have run into this issue). -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.
On 11/04/18 02:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 03:11:45 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version >>> number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify >>> users by a NEWS item, that I can see. >> >> Emerge will catch this, no need for revbump. Unless you're not using -D >> (--deep) when updating world. Which you should. > > It didn't on my MythTV frontend, which runs X as the mythtv user, as > xorg-server builds with -suid by default. > > It didn't on my MythTV frontend either, I had to manually add "suid" to package.use for it to start working again. Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 03:11:45 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version > > number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify > > users by a NEWS item, that I can see. > > Emerge will catch this, no need for revbump. Unless you're not using -D > (--deep) when updating world. Which you should. It didn't on my MythTV frontend, which runs X as the mythtv user, as xorg-server builds with -suid by default. -- Neil Bothwick Every time I jump on the bandwagon all its wheels fall off. pgpiRtcYXhYGN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
