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On 09/08/03 Jan Krueger wrote: |
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> On Monday 08 September 2003 03:03, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > You haven't shared many of your views |
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> Here they are again summed up for the interested reader: |
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> -allow the actual package install process only to add files to the |
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> filesystem or to only modify/remove files that belong to an revision |
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> of the same ebuild(qa would benefit from this suggestions too.). |
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> Portage, before putting all the files from the image into the life |
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> filesystem, scans the image for all files in there. now it has a list |
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> of files it is going to install. So it scans now the live filesystem |
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> if thes files, or some of them exist. If they exist in the live |
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> filesystem, portage checks if they belong to a revision of the same |
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> ebuild. |
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> -if they dont belong to a revision of the same ebuild and are not |
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> found in |
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> the live filesystem it would be an addition of new software so the |
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> files are put into action |
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> -if they are found in the filesystem and belong to a revision of the |
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> same |
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> ebuild it would be an upgrade or downgrade and are put into action |
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> -if they are found in the filesystem and do not belong to a revision |
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> of the |
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> same ebuild -> something is wrong (might be init going to be |
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> overwritten) -> inform the user and fail |
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I think this might be useful so I implemented a portage patch for it, |
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see bug 28228 on http://bugs.gentoo.org . It's highly experimental by |
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now and probably needs more work, but it should work in 90% of all |
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cases. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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