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Bug 95716 - leafnode complains about .keep
Summary: leafnode complains about .keep
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Other
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Net-news project
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Reported: 2005-06-10 12:49 UTC by Vlad Berditchevskiy
Modified: 2006-08-09 13:14 UTC (History)
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Description Vlad Berditchevskiy 2005-06-10 12:49:03 UTC 
When fetchnews is installed or updated, .keep is created in empty directories by the portage. However, fetchnews complains about it:

postarticles: file .keep lacks Newsgroups and/or Message-ID header (this cannot happen)
moving file .keep to failed.postings
Comment 1 Vlad Berditchevskiy 2005-06-10 12:54:54 UTC 
Sorry, of course I meant leafnode, not fetchnews
Comment 2 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev 2005-06-10 13:11:01 UTC 
Yeah, but we need those .keep files to avoid that portage unmerges empty
directories. Just in case someone emerges leafnode twice in a row without
actually running it. But leafnode should run after complaining about the
.keep file.
Comment 3 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev 2006-08-09 13:14:58 UTC 
There is nothing we can do about it. It's the way our package manager handles directories that are marked to be kept. Leafnode should do it's job even with the .keep files there.