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Bug 9557 - newexe just blew away newbie install
Summary: newexe just blew away newbie install
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-10-23 11:14 UTC by John-David Childs
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description John-David Childs 2002-10-23 11:14:16 UTC
while reading through bugzilla about missing symlinks between (from?) /usr/bin
-> /usr/lib/portage/bin, I typed in "newexe" to see what it does (no manpage,
couldn't find the docs).  5 seconds later, my gentoo linux install which had
taken two days to complete up to that point was toast.

newexe should be able to tell if it was invoked by a stupid r00t user and refuse
to run (at least w/o a parameter or environment variable or...)
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-10-23 11:30:01 UTC
rofl :)
Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-23 16:07:08 UTC
Being fixed. Will be in portage-2.0.42.