From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:28:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110803222851.05b6c454@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110803212656.GA4212@localhost>
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0700
Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aka, ebuild's should be written to assume the files they install get
> wiped; there is *zero* mention of mtime, nor could any ebuild rely on
> it and be compliant.
But as it's a FEATURE, they can't assume that at all.
So either we spec VDB and the unmerge process, which gets horrible for
all kinds of reasons, or ebuilds can't assume that things that have
been modified get wiped.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-03 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-31 14:43 [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo Anthony G. Basile
2011-07-31 19:46 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-07-31 20:00 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 7:08 ` Michał Górny
2011-08-02 14:28 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 14:51 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 15:05 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 15:19 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 17:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-08-02 17:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 17:36 ` Jonathan Callen
[not found] ` <20110802173846.AF04F21C12C@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2011-08-02 17:39 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 20:46 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-08-03 1:19 ` Duncan
2011-08-03 0:29 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-03 11:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-03 21:26 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-03 21:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2011-08-03 21:52 ` Brian Harring
2011-08-02 15:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2011-08-02 15:09 ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:28 ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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