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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Detecting Baselayout2/openrc - no-symlink profiles leading to breakage
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:14:51
Message-Id: 20090119061306.GA22636@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Detecting Baselayout2/openrc - no-symlink profiles leading to breakage by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:11:52PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On 15:07 Sat 17 Jan , Robin H. Johnson wrote:
3 > > As a long term solution, can we just consume an inode and have some file
4 > > like /etc/baselayout2? The file must reside on the / partition even when
5 > > the major trees /usr, /var, /tmp, /opt, /boot, /home, /dev, /root are
6 > > separate mountpoints.
7 > How about using the version in /etc/gentoo-release?
8 I should clarify that I want to check simply the existence of a file,
9 rather than parse out a version number or cause a fork to execute.
10
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12 Robin Hugh Johnson
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