Bug 95716

Summary:	leafnode complains about .keep
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vlad Berditchevskiy <vlad>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Net-news project <net-news>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.