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From: "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:52:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223175251.GA13873@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512240222.06574.jstubbs@gentoo.org>

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On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:22:06AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> Symlinks are handled within portage differently to regular files. Regular 
> files get an mtime check and are removed if it matches. Symlinks don't get an 
> mtime check (even thought the mtime is stored) and are only removed if the 
> symlink's target doesn't exist. Hence, it seems to be this way by design. Why 
> it's this way? Who knows. It's been that way for longer than anyone can 
> remember which is why _it's so important that bugs get filed_.

Honestly, I thought it was supposed to be like that, since
collision-protect also doesn't protect against packages overwriting
each other's symlinks (package A and package B can both create
/dummy -> bin without any problems from portage). Do you want a bug
report for that?

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-23 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-23 10:10 [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 11:19 ` Stefan Schweizer
2005-12-23 11:31   ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 12:39     ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-23 12:55       ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 13:00       ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 13:13         ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-23 17:11           ` Zac Medico
2005-12-23 17:32             ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 17:22           ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 17:52             ` Harald van Dijk [this message]
2005-12-23 18:09               ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 18:46                 ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-23 18:42             ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-12-23 19:12               ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 18:43             ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-12-23 18:57               ` Simon Stelling
2005-12-23 19:06               ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 21:19                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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