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Bug 22906 - config file protection buglet
Summary: config file protection buglet
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)
URL: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~woodchip/blah-...
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Reported: 2003-06-16 00:03 UTC by Donny Davies (RETIRED)
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description Donny Davies (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-06-16 00:03:48 UTC 
incoming symlink overwrites file


Reproducible: Always
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see the test case ebuild
Comment 1 Martin Lesser 2003-06-19 00:53:45 UTC 
The description should be:

An existing symlink shared between more than packages can be overwritten by a file with the same name.

See difference between net-libs/nss_ldap/nss_ldap-207.ebuild and net-libs/nss_ldap/nss_ldap-207-r1.ebuild
Comment 2 Donny Davies (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-06-19 08:58:16 UTC 
No martin, that doesnt matter.

The bug is exactly as I have already stated:

incoming symlink overwrites file
Comment 3 Donny Davies (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-21 21:58:13 UTC 
Nick I think you fixed this.
Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-22 08:47:30 UTC 
fixed in recent portages.