[arch-dev-public] [signoff] bash-4.2.005 and readline-6.2.001

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Mar 1 09:50:43 EST 2011


On 01/03/11 23:13, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Eric Bélanger<snowmaniscool at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 2011/3/1 Ángel Velásquez<angvp at archlinux.org>:
>>> 2011/2/28 Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>:
>>>> Upstream patchlevel bumps.   There were the (fairly minor) bug fixes I was
>>>> waiting for beofre moving bash-4.2 and readline-6.2 to [core].
>>>>
>>>> Signoff both,
>>>> Allan
>>>>
>>>
>>> -1
>>>
>>> Broke my system
>>>
>>> I had to remount everything and downgrade manually (partitions wasn't
>>> mounting) and initscripts got broken
>>>
>>
>> Another -1.  I would recommand everyone to downgrade to the previous
>> versions before rebooting or halting their systems. I had to boot from
>> a live CD in order to downgrade them.
>
> Any reason anyone didn't do this already? At least now they're no
> longer in [testing]. We have no reason to keep stuff like this in the
> repos for this long if it causes this many problems.

I had no computer access for the past few hours so have not gotten this 
fixed yet...

> dan at gerolde ~
> $ /arch/db-remove bash testing i686
> ==>  Removing bash from [testing]...
>
> dan at gerolde ~
> $ /arch/db-remove bash testing x86_64
> ==>  Removing bash from [testing]...
>
> dan at gerolde ~
> $ /arch/db-remove readline testing i686
> ==>  Removing readline from [testing]...
>
> dan at gerolde ~
> $ /arch/db-remove readline testing x86_64
> ==>  Removing readline from [testing]...
>

Well readline was not the issue at all, so that should go back...  I'll 
deal with that when I upload a fixed bash.

Allan




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