Bug 42363 – updating grsecurity-kernel removes old sources but didn't create new link

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Toralf Förster 2004-02-21 07:13:47 UTC]

updating to linux-2.4.24-grsec-1.9.13-r1 removes old sources under /usr/src/linux-2.4.24-grsec-1.9.13 but the link /usr/src/linux does not point after emerge to the new directory linux-2.4.24-grsec-1.9.13-r1, instead it points to the old directory linux-2.4.24-grsec-1.9.13

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -u grsec-sources
2.
3.


Expected Results:  
either set the link to the new dir or do not remove the old dir 

# emerge info 
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 
2.4.24-grsec-1.9.13-r1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.24-grsec-1.9.13-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gd gdbm gif 
gpm gtk2 imlib innodb java jbig jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww linguas_de mad mbox 
mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl 
png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang slp snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd 
tiff truetype usb wmf x86 xml2 xv zlib"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-02-21 11:48:57 UTC]

portage will never touch /usr/src/linux if it still points to a directory that exists

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2004-02-22 01:36:05 UTC]

but portage will ever try to fully remove the directory where the link /usr/src/linux points to ?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-02-22 01:45:25 UTC]

no, it wont be removed by portage because it has object files in it thus it isnt empty

portage is a tool to make your life easier, it's not going to hold your hand for everything ... plus, trying to do too much can easily result in unwanted behavior