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On Sunday 24 July 2005 15:25, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:40 -0500, Brian D. Harring wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:20:19AM +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> > > Apropos config-files: what about config-files that are provided by |
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> > > the old-version of an ebuild but have been moved or removed by the |
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> > > new version? etc-update doesn't know about them. So /etc/ will be |
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> > > full of useless config-files after some time. |
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> > |
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> > Vapier had suggested yanking (on unmerge, not replacement) any |
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> > config_protected file that has the same md5/mtime as what it was |
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> > originally merged with. |
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> > This would cause issues for nvidia-kernel though I'd think, although |
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> > their solution isn't exactly optimal (no better solution atm either |
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> > though). |
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> Not sure I'm on speed with why that would be bad for nvidia-kernel? |
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If necessary a "touch /etc/myconfigfile" in pkg_postinst would force that |
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the config file stays there. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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