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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o, Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@××××××××.com>, "mgorny@g.o" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/3] INSTALL_MASK refurbishing resubmit
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:09:57
Message-Id: 258569c2-eb72-8701-a6e2-c6372a450e04@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/3] INSTALL_MASK refurbishing resubmit by Joakim Tjernlund
1 On 03/22/2018 05:52 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 15:59 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> On 03/15/2018 12:22 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> Here are three of four INSTALL_MASK updates I've sent long time ago
7 >>> which were not really reviewed. The fourth patch added support
8 >>> for repo-defined install-mask.conf and I'll do that separately.
9 >>>
10 >>> Those patches focus on smaller changes. What they change, in order:
11 >>>
12 >>> 1. Removes explicit file removal code for FEATURES=no*. Instead, those
13 >>> values are converted into additional INSTALL_MASK entries
14 >>> and handled directly via INSTALL_MASK processing.
15 >>>
16 >>> 2. Rework INSTALL_MASK to filter files while installing instead of
17 >>> pre-stripping them. In other words, before: INSTALL_MASK removes
18 >>> files from ${D} before merge. After: ${D} contains all the files,
19 >>> Portage just skip INSTALL_MASK-ed stuff, verbosely indicating that.
20 >>>
21 >>> 3. Adds support for exclusions in INSTALL_MASK. In other words, you
22 >>> can do stuff like:
23 >>>
24 >>> INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/locale -/usr/share/locale/en_US"
25 >>>
26 >>> I have been using this via user patches since the last submission.
27 >>> Guessing by 'git log', this means almost 2 years now.
28 >>>
29 >>> --
30 >>> Best regards,
31 >>> Michał Górny
32 >>>
33 >>> Michał Górny (3):
34 >>> portage.package.ebuild.config: Move FEATURES=no* handling there
35 >>> portage.dbapi.vartree: Move INSTALL_MASK handling into merging
36 >>> portage.dbapi.vartree: Support exclusions in INSTALL_MASK
37 >>>
38 >>> bin/misc-functions.sh | 30 ----------
39 >>> pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
40 >>> pym/portage/package/ebuild/config.py | 11 ++++
41 >>> 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
42 >>>
43 >>
44 >> As mentioned in #gentoo-portage today, the rationale for including the
45 >> INSTALL_MASKed files in CONTENTS is to that we can detect collisions
46 >> that would have occurred had people not been using INSTALL_MASK.
47 >>
48 >> Since people can use INSTALL_MASK to intentionally prevent collisions,
49 >> in cases where COLLISION_IGNORE is not appropriate (this is common
50 >> practice at my workplace), we'll need a new FEATURES setting to trigger
51 >> the new behavior where INSTALL_MASKed files still trigger file collisions.
52 >
53 > Are we going to see this in Portage soon? And PKG_INSTALL_MASK too ?
54
55 Yes, I'll clean up the patches an resubmit them. Bug filed:
56 https://bugs.gentoo.org/651214
57 --
58 Thanks,
59 Zac

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