Bug 1256

Summary:	portage erronously removes empty directories during unmerge
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	ralf
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	carpaski
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ralf 2002-03-20 08:17:22 UTC

during the emerge update process, several versions of a package can be
installed. after that, trying to unmerge the old version will remove
empty directories common to both the old and the new package, thus
possibly damaging the installation of the new package.

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-23 11:08:32 UTC

make a .keep in the ebuilds.
Empty directories are assumed unneeded which is a practical solution.
An ebuild should have .keep's for a directory that needs to be
persistant. This will maintain the directory and it's ownership
to the newest package.