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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Friday, April 8, 2005 1:21:26 pm | by SteveBrorens | Revert |
| Older page: | version 9 | Last edited on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 3:35:50 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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!! [Gentoo]
emerge -U world
-will update all packages - these are functionality updates as well as security updates. As far as we are aware
, [Gentoo] doesn't provide just security updates to its reference platforms
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+will update all packages - but
these are functionality updates as well as security updates, so is generaly not advised
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+Instead
, run "emerge --sync" then "glsa-check --fix all". You should also check gentoo.org for documentation on dispatch.conf
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!![Knoppix]
[Knoppix] is designed to boot of a read-only media such as a [CDROM] and no security patches are issued. It's important to check that you're using a copy of the most recent version of [Knoppix] if you are using it for non-trivial tasks.
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