| Summary: | emerge --pretend --config does not pretend | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | michael <michael> |
| Component: | Core - Interface (emerge) | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 147007 | ||
Thanks, this is fixed in svn r4600. This has been released in 2.1.2_pre2-r5. |
emerge --pretend --config actually goes forward with the --config. There are several side effects: 1) If the user is not root, emerge tries to run the config anyway. This is confusing, (if not particularly dangerous) because the --config for mysql asks, "Insert a password for the mysql 'root' user", which could be misconstrued. 2) If the user is root, emerge runs the config as if the --pretend option were not there. dell mysql # emerge --pretend --config =dev-db/mysql-4.1.21 Configuring pkg... * MySQL DATADIR is /var/lib/mysql * Creating the mysql database and setting proper * permissions on it ... * Insert a password for the mysql 'root' user * Avoid ["'\_%] characters in the password > * Retype the password > . * Loading "zoneinfo", this step may require a few seconds ... * Stopping the server ... * Done If there's no better idea, --pretend --config should probably just say emerge: "config" actions do not support "--pretend" (same as --sync --pretend). I didn't think my emerge --info was relevant, and didn't want to take up that much space unnecessarily. Please let me know if you need it.