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Bug 279600 - app-portage/autounmask writes to files unneccessarily
Summary: app-portage/autounmask writes to files unneccessarily
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Keywords: PMASKED
Depends on: 398935
Blocks:
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Reported: 2009-07-29 16:22 UTC by James Broadhead
Modified: 2012-03-04 09:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description James Broadhead 2009-07-29 16:22:56 UTC 
If autounmask is run for a program that does not need new entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask, autounmask writes comments to that file unneccessarily. This makes the file harder to maintain.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run autounmask for a program that is ~keyworded but not masked
2. cat /etc/portage/package.unmask
3.

Actual Results:  
There will be new comments in package.unmask, but no new entries. This is unneccessary. 
eg. 
# ---
# BEGIN: net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1
# ---
# ---
# END: net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1
# ---


Expected Results:  
The file should not be written to.
Comment 1 James Earl Spahlinger 2009-07-29 21:24:28 UTC 
Assigning to maintainer, however this may be an upstream issue.
Comment 2 James Broadhead 2010-08-15 18:40:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Assigning to maintainer, however this may be an upstream issue. 
> 

Gentoo _is_ the upstream for autounmask.
Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-04 09:28:34 UTC 
package no longer in tree