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maillog: 15/03/2005-08:26:49(-0600): Brian Jackson types |
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> On 12:56:00 am 2005-03-15 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > maillog: 14/03/2005-22:24:24(-0600): Brian Jackson types |
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> > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:21 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > > > Vitaly Ivanov wrote: |
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> > > > > I found the comments of Nicholas Jones in bug |
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> > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52415 |
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> > > > >>> Portage makes the assumption that if you're installing |
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> > > > >>> into a new root, then you're building a system and |
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> > > > >>> shouldn't bother with config protection. It's not |
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> > > > >>> documented either way, so it's undefined behavior. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I disagree with that logic, because people may be maintaining |
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> > > > systems in a ROOT with modified config files. Updating those |
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> > > > systems trashes the files. Thank you for pointing out this |
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> > > > behavior now, because it walks all over plans I have for a |
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> > > diskless cluster. |
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> > > I mentioned this to the portage guys the other day. Either they |
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> > > didn't care, or they didn't hear me. Either way, probably need to |
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> > > file a bug about it (or stir up that other one). |
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> > |
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> > Alright! The bug is getting attention, and it even hasn't been a year! |
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> > |
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> > I posted a patch at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52415 that |
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> > addresses the issue. You can directly do |
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> > |
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> > wget http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=53496 -O - | patch -p0 |
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> > which will in turn screw your portage.py, but hopefully for the best. |
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> > |
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> > As I see that there are more people who are interested in the bug, I |
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> > am expecting at least some to trust me enough as to try out the patch |
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> > and in turn make some noise (yeah, noise is what we need) when it |
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> > makes them happy. |
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> > |
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> > The other problem that bothers me (that is: reading configuration |
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> > files from $ROOT) seems to be worked on. At least, there are |
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> > comments like: |
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> I have a bug filed for that too, but it's probably going to be a while |
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> before it's fixed. From what I've been told, it's not trivial to fix it |
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> because some of the config stuff isn't very well abstracted. |
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It isn't? Are we talking about the same thing? After all, the locations |
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are just variables, that only need to be prefixed with something. Could |
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we get some input from whoever told you this? |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73350 |
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