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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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> I disagree with that logic, because people may be maintaining systems in |
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> a ROOT with modified config files. Updating those systems trashes the |
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> files. Thank you for pointing out this behavior now, because it walks |
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> all over plans I have for a diskless cluster. |
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I mentioned this to the portage guys the other day. Either they didn't |
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care, or they didn't hear me. Either way, probably need to file a bug |
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about it (or stir up that other one). |
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--Iggy |
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