From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from evolution.brianandsara.net (doc-65-248-107-48.cn.tx.cebridge.net [65.248.107.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2F4NbRW006023 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:23:38 GMT Received: from matrix.brianandsara.net ([::ffff:192.168.10.14]) by evolution.brianandsara.net with esmtp; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:31:05 -0600 id 003D5F48.42366509.00006D71 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/' From: Brian Jackson To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4236004E.1010007@gentoo.org> References: <4235BFB0.70907@rle.ru> <4236004E.1010007@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:24:24 -0600 Message-ID: <1110860664.11759.3.camel@matrix.brianandsara.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-Archives-Salt: 0b10d1a9-f783-4fdf-8cf9-b2b2139869dc X-Archives-Hash: 1ac4b616c4d1045450a2f2c07f8f6c5b Message-ID: <20050315042424.bvHZaLHzy-fTh4QChJUyaBItoLgSvw3wHUaTlAfu83o@z> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 13:21 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vitaly Ivanov wrote: > > I found the comments of Nicholas Jones in bug > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52415 > >>> Portage makes the assumption that if you're installing > >>> into a new root, then you're building a system and > >>> shouldn't bother with config protection. It's not > >>> documented either way, so it's undefined behavior. > > I disagree with that logic, because people may be maintaining systems in > a ROOT with modified config files. Updating those systems trashes the > files. Thank you for pointing out this behavior now, because it walks > all over plans I have for a diskless cluster. I mentioned this to the portage guys the other day. Either they didn't care, or they didn't hear me. Either way, probably need to file a bug about it (or stir up that other one). --Iggy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list