Bug 2508 – keepdir support (request)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2002-05-06 17:53:06 UTC]

i would like to request general keepdir support, as it is also needed in other  
ebuilds (not just baselayout) 
  
i already use it in cronbase - but all the other crons need it too, as they  
install the crontab dirs without putting in a crontab...  
  
this could cleanup other situations, where the ebuild author now touches a the 
.keep file manually

[Comment 1 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2002-06-26 17:06:55 UTC]

touch 
 
this is what the keepdir function in baselayout looks like: 
 
#adds ".keep" files so that dirs aren't auto-cleaned 
keepdir() { 
        dodir $* 
        local x 
        for x in $* 
        do 
                touch ${D}/${x}/.keep 
        done 
} 
 

[Comment 2 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2002-06-27 18:05:28 UTC]

closed by g2boojum