Re: [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files - admin consideration?

["jano" <jano@portablehole.net>]

I hope I got this right: the .keep files are there to prevent the qmail
queue directory from being clobbered during an unmerge, correct?  My take on
this discussion will be obviously OT, so any response to this would best
come directly to me (unless deemed proper for gentoo-dev)

>From an administration standpoint, however, how often is qmail, on a
production box, actually updated?  Some patches, e.g. smtp auth or
qmail-ldap, come out with a new version every.. say.. several months, but
that's about all I've seen.  The main patches (big todo, concurrency,
tarpiting, reiser sync) haven't changed much.  On a box where you're
constantly installing various qmail patches, i can see how the queue
directory issue might get in the way, but on a production box, for now, I
would simply remove those .keep files and not worry about it (either from
the ebuild before installing, or manually after install).  Of course this is
a no brainer, a moot point, i feel silly having brought it up.  *shrug*

Oh, but great thing about modifying an ebuild is that your modified version
is stored in /var/db/pkg :)  I love that :)))