Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/'

[Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:21 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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> Vitaly Ivanov wrote:
> > I found the comments of Nicholas Jones in bug
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52415
> >>> Portage makes the assumption that if you're installing
> >>> into a new root, then you're building a system and
> >>> shouldn't bother with config protection. It's not
> >>> documented either way, so it's undefined behavior.
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> I disagree with that logic, because people may be maintaining systems in
> a ROOT with modified config files. Updating those systems trashes the
> files. Thank you for pointing out this behavior now, because it walks
> all over plans I have for a diskless cluster.

I mentioned this to the portage guys the other day. Either they didn't
care, or they didn't hear me. Either way, probably need to file a bug
about it (or stir up that other one).

--Iggy

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