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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: upgrade's and rc-scripts
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:25:20
Message-Id: 1122211520.4621.43.camel@lycan.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: upgrade's and rc-scripts by "Brian D. Harring"
1 On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:40 -0500, Brian D. Harring wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:20:19AM +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
3 > > Apropos config-files: what about config-files that are provided by the
4 > > old-version of an ebuild but have been moved or removed by the new
5 > > version? etc-update doesn't know about them. So /etc/ will be full of
6 > > useless config-files after some time.
7 > Vapier had suggested yanking (on unmerge, not replacement) any
8 > config_protected file that has the same md5/mtime as what it was
9 > originally merged with.
10 >
11 > This would cause issues for nvidia-kernel though I'd think, although
12 > their solution isn't exactly optimal (no better solution atm either
13 > though).
14
15 Not sure I'm on speed with why that would be bad for nvidia-kernel?
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18 Regards,
19
20 --
21 Martin Schlemmer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: upgrade's and rc-scripts Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>