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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:26:08
Message-Id: 1316525128.1711.4.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem by "Michał Górny"
1 El mar, 20-09-2011 a las 15:16 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
2 > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:09:01 +0200
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > I haven't ever tried it but, what would occur if that people with
6 > > really updated systems simply unpack an updated stage3 tarball in
7 > > their / and, later, try to update?
8 >
9 > Possibly at least few file collisions, if portage would be able to
10 > clean the initial mess up.
11 >
12 > But maybe a solution is to fork a minimalistic installer/updater from
13 > portage which would have really tiny needs, unpack stage3 like you
14 > suggested and then clean up remaining files from replaced packages.
15 >
16
17 Maybe we could tell that people to temporally disable protect-owned
18 FEATURE until update ends :-|

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