Bug 14396

Summary:	ebuild.sh: keepdir() should check if .keep already exists
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jukka Salmi <j+gentoo>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	ebuild.sh patch

Description Jukka Salmi 2003-01-22 17:35:30 UTC

a keepdir() which creates .keep files only if those file don't exist would solve
problems for people who have a read-only /usr/portage, e.g. mounted ro via nfs.

example: all sys-apps/baselayout ebuilds do a 'keepdir /usr/portage'; this makes
the emerge fail if /usr/portage is is read-only. if /usr/portage/.keep exists,
the call to touch(1) in keepdir() is needless.

a patch for /usr/lib/portage/ebuild.sh follows.

Comment 1 Jukka Salmi 2003-01-22 17:40:08 UTC

Created attachment 7541 [details, diff]
ebuild.sh patch

makes ebuild.sh to create .keep files only they don't exist

Comment 2 Jukka Salmi 2003-01-23 11:02:42 UTC

typo in patch comment: s/only they/only if they/

Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-01-23 14:08:48 UTC

modified and integrated for next release

Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-02-17 06:05:02 UTC

in testing.