Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] emerge: check for writable /var/db/pkg (490732)

[Brian Dolbec]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:49:00 -0800
Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:

> If there are packages to be merged or unmerge, then bail out early
> if /var/db/pkg is not writable (in order to avoid a fatal EROFS error
> which would otherwise occur later on). Behavior remains unchanged for
> --pretend mode. For --ask mode, it will bail out just after the last
> relevant --ask prompt.
>
> In contrast to the writeable_check module, which operates on files
> just before they are merged, the new vardbapi.writable check is
> performed before anything has been built (much earlier).
>
> X-Gentoo-Bug: 490732
> X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490732
> ---
> PATCH v3 fixes emerge --unmerge --pretend to succeed when /var/db/pkg
> is not writable (--pretend actions may still be useful when operating
> with a readonly filesystem).
>

LGTM

-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen>