Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving COLLISION_IGNORE (and UNINSTALL_IGNORE?) to profiles/*/make.defaults

[Zac Medico]

On 08/09/2013 11:10 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 09:47:38
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> napisał(a):
>
>> On 08/09/2013 02:32 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Just a quick one.
>>>
>>> Currently, the two listed variables are set in make.globals (installed
>>> by portage ebuild);
>>>
>>> COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules/* *.py[co] *\$py.class"
>>> UNINSTALL_IGNORE="/lib/modules/*"
>>>
>>> COLLISION_IGNORE specifies files that will be ignored by
>>> FEATURES=collision-protect when they exist but are not owned by any
>>> package. UNINSTALL_IGNORE specifies files that will not be unmerged.
>>>
>>> By keeping those two in portage, we're basically binding them to
>>> version of portage installed. If we need to ignore more files, we need
>>> to request our users to upgrade portage.
>>>
>>> That's why I'm thinking of moving them to profiles/base/make.defaults.
>>> From what I've tested, the setting there will override make.globals
>>> and therefore the change could be effective from day one, without
>>> the need to upgrade portage.
>>>
>>> I feel like those variables are much alike the QA variables that we
>>> keep in the profiles.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I guess it's fine. I would do it like this in order to respect the
>> portage default setting:
>>
>> COLLISION_IGNORE="${COLLISION_IGNORE} new stuff"
>
> Well, the intent was to put the current default in there, and drop it
> in next version of portage since it is specific to gx86 eclasses
> and ebuilds.

Well, the /lib/modules/* setting specifically complements portage's
UNINSTALL_IGNORE setting, so that would be one reason to inherit the
portage setting, in case portage changes its default config somehow.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac