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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] collision-protect -> protect-owned ?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:25:30
Message-Id: 50E51649.8010308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] collision-protect -> protect-owned ? by "Michał Górny"
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4 On 01/03/2013 12:06 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:49:02 -0800
6 > ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
7 >
8 >> It came up again with <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449918>,
9 >> and I think it's worth to think about a better fix. I still keep hitting
10 >> mysterious collisions with orphaned files from time to time.
11 >>
12 >> How about switching the developer profile from collision-protect to
13 >> protect-owned, and proceeding with enabling protect-owned by default for
14 >> all profiles? (not all developers are using the developer profile)
15 >
16 > Well, it all depends.
17 >
18 > protect-owned is easy and lazy. You just get errors on package
19 > collisions, care about nothing else.
20 >
21 > collision-protect cares about every collision. It can help you notice
22 > that *your* package lefts orphaned files for some reason or writes
23 > where it is not supposed to write.
24 >
25 In the years I ran collision-protect I can say it prevented hundreds of
26 merges of linux-firmware (because the kernel also installs firmware) and
27 not much else.
28
29 Would you be able to share more specific insight on how
30 collision-protect helped protect files that need to be protected where
31 protect-owned would have been inferior?
32
33 - -Zero
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Re: [gentoo-dev] collision-protect -> protect-owned ? Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>