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On Sunday 22 May 2005 05:38, marduk wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: |
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> > Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there |
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> > to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would |
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> > it be possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package |
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> > files are merged to / ? |
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> > Or do .keep files serve another purpose, not obvious to me? |
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> I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing |
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> an empty directory, but I could be wrong... |
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You're pretty much right. If you look at updating a package as emerging the |
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new version and then unmerging the old version, you'll see the reason. There |
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is not yet any central database of installed files so unmerging the old |
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version will find that the package installed a directory that is now empty |
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(presumably because the files installed by that package have already been |
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removed) and the directory is removed. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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