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| 2021-10-04 |
Redcore explains Portage bug |
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The Redcore Linux project has shined a spotlight on a serious package management issues that has surfaced in Gentoo. The issue stems from corruption in the Portage software manager's database which can, in some cases, cause an upgrade to break the operating system. "We have observed in some cases corruption of Portage's internal database (VDB), where the libraries provided by a package are not recorded. This can break the 'preserve-libs' functionality, and thus in rare cases break your system during much later updates (even if you do not use 'preserved-libs' now, but decide to switch it on later). The underlying problem occurs usually when glibc has been upgraded to a new major version, but pax-utils has not yet been upgraded to a version compatible with it (but at that moment stays undetected). The full technical details and investigation can be found on a wiki page and on Bugzilla." The Redcore blog post goes on to explain how to address the Portage bug. |
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