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From: Jakub Moc <jakub.moc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: File collisions
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:25:27
Message-Id: 9fce88250704200021s6b46c364w417458c51ea5b603@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: File collisions by Rob C
1 On 4/20/07, Rob C <hyakuhei@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 19/04/07, Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Arch teams normally have collision-protect enabled when doing
4 > > keywording/stabling....in my eyes this is sufficient.
5 > Its obviously not, Many users are reporting file-collisions on a weekly
6 > basis. So either this isn't sufficient or the arch teams are not acting as
7 > you describe.
8
9 This can't be done yet, there's a couple of minor issues to iron out
10 (some python and gcc stuff collisions). After those few remaining
11 issues get finished, yeah this would be a useful default FEATURE.
12 There's quite a couple of bugs (usually pretty cryptic ones) caused by
13 clobbering files that belong to other ebuilds.
14
15 @Opfer: Users will usually notice many more of those collisions simply
16 because they are testing on a system that they normally use, while
17 developers are often testing in chroots or test boxes with just the
18 bare-bones system installed.
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22 Jakub Moc
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[gentoo-dev] Re: File collisions Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>