Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: upgrade's and rc-scripts

["Brian D. Harring" <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:20:19AM +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
> > Out of curiousity, has any put any thought into some automated method 
> > or hook for allowing restarting of rc-scripts on upgrade/re-emerge of 
> > a package?
> > 
> > Other question is if any such hook is even needed.
> > So... thoughts?  I don't really have any input on it, aside from I'd 
> > like to gather what people want/think would be useful.
> 
> Another good idea, would be "pending jobs" list. Many ebuilds provide
> imports instructions like "you can now delete this or that config-file"
> or like "you must immediatly run this or that".
>
> These usually scroll by while there're nobody watching the screen and/or
> they cannot be read completely, since they scroll away too fast.
logging (and post display) of info/warning, it's in head.
 
> Apropos config-files: what about config-files that are provided by the
> old-version of an ebuild but have been moved or removed by the new
> version? etc-update doesn't know about them. So /etc/ will be full of
> useless config-files after some time.
Vapier had suggested yanking (on unmerge, not replacement) any 
config_protected file that has the same md5/mtime as what it was 
originally merged with.

This would cause issues for nvidia-kernel though I'd think, although 
their solution isn't exactly optimal (no better solution atm either 
though).
~harring

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