From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2ELM12V010772 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:22:01 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.client.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DAx0j-00028M-0r for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:22:01 +0000 Message-ID: <4236004E.1010007@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:21:18 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050203) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CONFIG_PROTECT and ROOT!='/' References: <4235BFB0.70907@rle.ru> In-Reply-To: <4235BFB0.70907@rle.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ff4875da-cfad-4db3-8aaa-71db300e9a17 X-Archives-Hash: 44ab82c9400d1793f1a45c09b5db7b6c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCNgBOXVaO67S1rtsRAqwXAKD1gXa1Du1kUQl2SpmxGHKTIl+u3ACg++D1 yEnWNpiVD2Fhg97Tic7ZcFo= =9nYL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list