From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/'
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:21:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4236004E.1010007@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4235BFB0.70907@rle.ru>
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Vitaly Ivanov wrote:
> I found the comments of Nicholas Jones in bug
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52415
>>> Portage makes the assumption that if you're installing
>>> into a new root, then you're building a system and
>>> shouldn't bother with config protection. It's not
>>> documented either way, so it's undefined behavior.
I disagree with that logic, because people may be maintaining systems in
a ROOT with modified config files. Updating those systems trashes the
files. Thank you for pointing out this behavior now, because it walks
all over plans I have for a diskless cluster.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 16:45 [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/' Vitaly Ivanov
2005-03-14 21:21 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2005-03-15 4:24 ` Brian Jackson
2005-03-15 4:24 ` Brian Jackson
2005-03-15 6:56 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-03-15 14:26 ` Brian Jackson
2005-03-15 16:14 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-03-15 18:01 ` Brian Jackson
2005-03-15 23:05 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-03-16 3:17 ` Brian Harring
2005-03-16 3:35 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-03-16 4:11 ` Brian Harring
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