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From: Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] File collisions
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:49:11
Message-Id: f07gul$n3s$2@sea.gmane.org
1 On the issue of QA, I think enabling FEATURES="collision-detect" by default
2 would do a lot more good at this stage than "test". There are several
3 packages I have come across where this has picked up files not being
4 removed from earlier versions. It's a reasonable default to have and
5 doesn't involve delaying users since it takes a fraction of a second to
6 carry out. What I'd propose is that portage runs the collision-detect and
7 reports it, but continues the installation in the same manner as now.
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9 This could tie into an automated report at a later stage.
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11 According to the portage team the majority of blockers in the tree are
12 `soft' blocks which are file collisions. I understand that they'd like to
13 separate those from hard blocks which are more fundamental
14 incompatibilities than installing the same file, since that would make it
15 easier for QA to track those. collision-detect isn't going to help with
16 that, of course, but I wonder what the issues would be with such a change?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] File collisions Ioannis Aslanidis <aslanidis@×××××.com>
[gentoo-dev] Re: File collisions Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>