Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond...
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:49:20
Message-Id: 1132973320.21175.233.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] .53, .54 and beyond... by Marius Mauch
1 On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 02:54 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote:
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6 > > * VDB prevention of single byte NULL entries being created. ( .54 )
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8 > Not sure what this means. Just prevention of empty files in vdb?
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10 yeah exactly. I'm thinking something like the untested attached patch
11 from the ebuild.sh side of things and then ferreting out any cases
12 where doing this could cause problems and fixing those.
13 My motivation for wanting this is mainly that I don't want to take up
14 space in the vdb with RR/LDEPEND without adding some inode savings for
15 us as well.
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18 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
19 Gentoo Linux

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