Re: Security project meeting summary

Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Срд, 13/05/2009 в 17:50 -0500, Aleksey V Lazar пишет:
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>> I'm using Portage version 2.1.6.13 right now.  I know for a fact that
>> I've used the emerge --update @security command before (right around
>> 29 July 2008).  The command stopped working since then, apparently.
>> Thanks.
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> Check your emerge.log. You had portage-2.2* installed at that time.
> portage-2.2 was hard masked later to force all users downgrade to
> portage-2.1.6 - portage branch with backported stable features from
> portage-2.2. If you still wish to use emerge --update @security you'll
> have manually unmask portage-2.2 using /etc/portage/package.unmask (see
> handbook and/or man portage for more info). But note, portage-2.2 was
> masked for a reason ;)
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This explains it.  Thanks, Peter.

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Aleksey V. Lazar