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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files - admin consideration?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:24:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011213122451.F1690@chiba.3jane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011213124711.A9116@nomad.thehutt.org>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:47:11PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> Come to think of it, something isn't making sense to me.  I thought that
> files and directories weren't unmerged if the mtimes were different from
> the ones recorded when the portage was installed.  If that's the case
> then, empty or not, these directories shouldn't get deleted b/c they
> should all have been touched when the newer version of a portage is
> installed.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

mtimes aren't reliable for directories and not used for determining to unmerge.

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-13 18:24 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 [this message]
2001-12-13 18:03       ` [gentoo-dev] qmail and .keep files Daniel Robbins
2001-12-13 20:09     ` Geert Bevin

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