From: "Joerg Hoh" <joerg@devone.org>
To: Radoslaw Stachowiak <rstachowiak@gmail.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extension of etc-update
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:04:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040810120404.GB1912@hydra.joerghoh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d25519e90408100452548d6501@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:52:30PM +0200, Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote:
>
> it doesnt in proper way, because dispatch-conf does not store md5sums,
> but uses /var/db/pkg data for its comparision. But using it (db) after
> installation results in md5sum lost (only md5 sums of NEW version of
> files are stored).
>
> So there are two ways to do it:
> 1. store sums regardless of portage, and compare it after installation.
> 2. maybe, instead of md5sum, simple comparision if mtime < ctime than
> update is allowed would be fine?
>
> please comment about 2) because it would be trivial to implement it in
> dispatch-conf.
ctime vs mtime would be acceptable; if it is combined with the
trivial-merge-approach, it's probably enough for most of the mentioned
issues.
Joerg
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-10 10:43 [gentoo-dev] RFC: extension of etc-update Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 10:48 ` Guy Martin
2004-08-10 10:56 ` Mike Williams
2004-08-10 11:23 ` Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 11:46 ` Paul de Vrieze
[not found] ` <d25519e90408100452548d6501@mail.gmail.com>
2004-08-10 12:04 ` Joerg Hoh [this message]
2004-08-10 12:11 ` Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11 20:55 ` [gentoo-dev] small dispatch-conf patch, WAS: " Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11 21:03 ` Paul de Vrieze
[not found] ` <d25519e9040811143258d8d8ef@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200408112338.13758.pauldv@gentoo.org>
2004-08-12 7:35 ` Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11 2:51 ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: " Donnie Berkholz
2004-08-11 10:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
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