From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from kerberos.ynet.sk (proxy.ynet.sk [147.175.168.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4MJJ42i005874 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 19:19:04 GMT Received: from thelair.ynet.sk (thelair.ynet.sk [147.175.169.91]) by kerberos.ynet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F41072B27 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 21:19:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from thelair.ynet.sk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelair.ynet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11391E90E for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 21:19:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from thelair.ynet.sk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelair.ynet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B058BE1F for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 21:19:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:19:09 +0200 From: Andrej Kacian To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files Message-ID: <20050522211909.4dbf4236@thelair.ynet.sk> In-Reply-To: <20050522003753.GA15776@phaenix.haell.com> References: <20050521222822.43a8e905@thelair.ynet.sk> <1116707899.20765.0.camel@blackwidow> <20050522003753.GA15776@phaenix.haell.com> Organization: chaotic at best... X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.6 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Sun__22_May_2005_21_19_09_+0200_EfcoRa=ifVAV.2tu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: e948789c-db1c-4b92-9872-89330b322983 X-Archives-Hash: df755947e35db55c2655b01740eaf27e --Signature_Sun__22_May_2005_21_19_09_+0200_EfcoRa=ifVAV.2tu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700 Drake Wyrm wrote: > > I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing > > an empty directory, but I could be wrong... >=20 > That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the > post-merge clean phase. Were it not for the .keep files, portage would > cheerfully remove any empty directories the first time the package was > upgraded. Wouldn't it be possible for portage to just compare a dir in live filesystem and in the emerge image, and if the dir in image contains .keep file, the l= ive dir wouldn't get deleted? --=20 Andrej "Ticho" Kacian Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, amd64 --Signature_Sun__22_May_2005_21_19_09_+0200_EfcoRa=ifVAV.2tu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCkNstQlM6RnzZP+IRAskVAJ9NiStIn6SuRokglzs5RvaFqLzWnACfaJR7 BACbYXVZYfpCFyFVrzK182g= =9IfD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sun__22_May_2005_21_19_09_+0200_EfcoRa=ifVAV.2tu-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list