From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:03:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011213120329.A1690@chiba.3jane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1008248051.1016.14.camel@willow.theleaf.office>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:54:11PM +0100, Geert Bevin wrote:
> The problem is that when I remove them now for the qmail-qstat to
> function properly, an unmerge of a previously installed package might
> remove important queue dirs which are need for qmail to function. When
> having to chose between the two I tend to prefer having a properly
> running qmail system in all cases than an incorrectly reported number by
> qstat.
In this situation, the dir ${ROOT}/var/qmail... can be created in pkg_postinst.
Then it won't be autocleaned. Making this "prettier" is of course do-able but
is not a high priority atm.
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-13 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-13 11:33 [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-13 11:39 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-13 12:18 ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-13 12:54 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-13 13:13 ` Jerry A!
2001-12-13 17:45 ` [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files - admin consideration? jano
2001-12-13 17:47 ` Jerry A!
2001-12-13 18:24 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-13 18:03 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-12-13 20:09 ` [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files Geert Bevin
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