Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Is portage (/usr)/bin-merge safe?
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:17:34
Message-Id: 201306010217.38261.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Is portage (/usr)/bin-merge safe? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Saturday 01 June 2013 01:36:28 Duncan wrote:
2 > As in subject, is portage bin/usr-bin merge safe?
3
4 portage should be merge safe for all files. it specifically writes it to a temp
5 file and then does a rename so it's an atomic update. otherwise you'd get
6 things like ETXTBSY errors.
7 -mike

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