From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPPQt-0005wU-C1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:50:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9066FE05A3; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postak-2.fzu.cz (pc175e.fzu.cz [147.231.127.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC64E05A3 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postak-3.fzu.cz (postak3.fzu.cz [10.128.1.5]) by postak-2.fzu.cz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0KMoeke019756 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:50:40 +0100 Received: from [10.18.6.2] (nat5.suchdol.net [82.208.33.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by postak-3.fzu.cz (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n0KMoq1m008898 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:50:52 +0100 Message-ID: <49765547.2090408@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:50:47 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIEt1bmRyw6F0?= Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Usage of cp -i to prevent overwriting upstream files References: <4976205A.5030600@gentoo.org> <1232479492.31989.140.camel@liasis.inforead.com> <497627F1.5060704@gentoo.org> <1232482733.31989.152.camel@liasis.inforead.com> In-Reply-To: <1232482733.31989.152.camel@liasis.inforead.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE940511EE58FD35190886E46" X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Sendmail with Milter API 5.6.20, bases: 20090120 #1654946, check: 20090120 clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.4 required=5.0 ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44,RULE_NAME=-5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-postak (2008-01-01) on postak2.fzu.cz X-Archives-Salt: 19154ee1-b8a2-4681-bcbe-737e4d429d9a X-Archives-Hash: 5f9c914fc49c101c691e0aff0a550c29 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE940511EE58FD35190886E46 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ferris McCormick wrote: > 'cp -i' will at least ask a question, and I find that marginally better= > --- it's confusing, but at least it says something. But it seems to me= > that if we hit this case, no one (including the package owner) knows > which .xml file to use, so stopping the build makes sense, but do it > with some message that explains exactly what is going on. The problem is that the whole build won't *abort*, but rather become=20 interactive. I for one think that having it die (in the unlikely case that s=20 developer made a mistake) is better than letting it hang indefinitely=20 (in the unlikely case that a developer made a mistake) :). Think about=20 insane users setting up cronjobs and what not... Cheers, -jkt --=20 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth --------------enigE940511EE58FD35190886E46 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl2VUgACgkQamXfqERyJRcHNwCgnC3xMQeoDEFnjP+GOn7mF6xM ZsAAmwSX0gykImfs2yEJGlV1DUg0Jqax =YJhg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE940511EE58FD35190886E46--