From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:25:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316525128.1711.4.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110920151614.616c573c@pomiocik.lan>
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El mar, 20-09-2011 a las 15:16 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:09:01 +0200
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > I haven't ever tried it but, what would occur if that people with
> > really updated systems simply unpack an updated stage3 tarball in
> > their / and, later, try to update?
>
> Possibly at least few file collisions, if portage would be able to
> clean the initial mess up.
>
> But maybe a solution is to fork a minimalistic installer/updater from
> portage which would have really tiny needs, unpack stage3 like you
> suggested and then clean up remaining files from replaced packages.
>
Maybe we could tell that people to temporally disable protect-owned
FEATURE until update ends :-|
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-19 22:14 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem Alex Alexander
2011-09-19 22:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-09-20 0:46 ` Rich Freeman
2011-09-20 1:44 ` Duncan
2011-09-20 7:12 ` Alex Alexander
2011-09-20 10:43 ` Patrick Lauer
2011-09-20 10:28 ` Brian Harring
2011-09-20 10:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-20 11:07 ` Brian Harring
2011-09-20 11:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-20 13:33 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-09-20 10:50 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2011-09-20 6:56 ` Alex Alexander
2011-09-20 13:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 13:16 ` Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 13:16 ` Michał Górny
2011-09-20 13:25 ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2011-09-20 13:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-09-20 14:23 ` Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 17:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Patrick Lauer
2011-09-21 4:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-09-21 13:24 ` Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 15:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2011-09-20 15:28 ` Zac Medico
2011-09-20 17:03 ` Patrick Lauer
2011-09-20 17:14 ` Rich Freeman
2011-09-20 17:48 ` Alec Warner
2011-09-20 20:03 ` Michał Górny
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