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From: Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/'
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:23:37
Message-Id: 1110860664.11759.3.camel@matrix.brianandsara.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/' by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:21 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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5 > Vitaly Ivanov wrote:
6 > > I found the comments of Nicholas Jones in bug
7 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52415
8 > >>> Portage makes the assumption that if you're installing
9 > >>> into a new root, then you're building a system and
10 > >>> shouldn't bother with config protection. It's not
11 > >>> documented either way, so it's undefined behavior.
12 >
13 > I disagree with that logic, because people may be maintaining systems in
14 > a ROOT with modified config files. Updating those systems trashes the
15 > files. Thank you for pointing out this behavior now, because it walks
16 > all over plans I have for a diskless cluster.
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18 I mentioned this to the portage guys the other day. Either they didn't
19 care, or they didn't hear me. Either way, probably need to file a bug
20 about it (or stir up that other one).
21
22 --Iggy
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