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

["Jerry A!" <jerry@thehutt.org>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:45:39AM -0800, jano wrote:
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: 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)

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?

        --Jerry

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