Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: properly handle metadata transfer on first sync of an empty tree (#96410)
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 23:29:52
Message-Id: 42F5480A.1090706@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: properly handle metadata transfer on first sync of an empty tree (#96410) by "Brian D. Harring"
1 Brian D. Harring wrote:
2 > Hola all, patch (incvs now) to fix up a traceback on first sync with
3 > an empty tree; bug #96410
4 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96410
5 >
6 > The fix isn't exactly what I'd call pretty (creating an intermediate
7 > portdbapi and config instance to do the updates), but it's a corner
8 > case; config's categories is a bit of a hack, and tearing it out in
9 > stable is more work then worth... so this.
10 >
11 > Either way, it's attached, poke at it kindly :)
12 > ~harring
13 >
14
15 This patch seems good to me. I tested it a few times with things like "emerge metadata" and "rm -r /var/cache/edb/dep". I didn't do any rigorous testing but there were no noticeable problems.
16
17 Zac
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