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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/'
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:22:01
Message-Id: 4236004E.1010007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/' by Vitaly Ivanov
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4 Vitaly Ivanov wrote:
5 > I found the comments of Nicholas Jones in bug
6 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52415
7 >>> Portage makes the assumption that if you're installing
8 >>> into a new root, then you're building a system and
9 >>> shouldn't bother with config protection. It's not
10 >>> documented either way, so it's undefined behavior.
11
12 I disagree with that logic, because people may be maintaining systems in
13 a ROOT with modified config files. Updating those systems trashes the
14 files. Thank you for pointing out this behavior now, because it walks
15 all over plans I have for a diskless cluster.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/' Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/' Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o>