From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Eps45-0005gp-Ta for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:54:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBNIpZhF011661; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:51:35 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBNIjfR2028791 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:45:42 GMT Received: from cp237988-a.mill1.nb.home.nl ([84.29.235.69] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EprvB-0003DF-6u for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:45:41 +0000 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:46:59 +0100 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage Message-ID: <20051223184659.GA14896@gentoo.org> References: <200512231910.56795.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200512240222.06574.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051223175251.GA13873@gentoo.org> <200512240309.47085.jstubbs@gentoo.org> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512240309.47085.jstubbs@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 80b2eda7-d9e9-4a0e-987d-4976392859d9 X-Archives-Hash: 15f8282da3c1e66f532b29335c69ac15 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:09:47AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:52, Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:22:06AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > Symlinks are handled within portage differently to regular files. Reg= ular > > > 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). >=20 > As far as portage source goes, it is meant to be like that. But as far as= =20 > portage source goes, installed package information isn't necessary for de= p=20 > calculation (including depclean)... Most code has been reviewed and the m= ajor=20 > issues are known by at least one person, but there is still some code tha= t=20 > hasn't suffered a close examination (yet alone reworking) such as the cod= e=20 > that the above bug hits. >=20 > > Do you want a bug report for that? >=20 > Yes, please. Okay, reported as bug #116511. --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDrEYjwnQyISwouHwRAoi1AKCcQ7XHmJiz4Sd4L9aja5Z4Rs8QBwCffm6R 3c61kt9XPt3JmlbVoUPqPyo= =3Ums -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list