Bug 340935 – Portage "compresses" .keep* files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Ulrich Müller 2010-10-14 07:26:16 UTC]

Not a big problem, but these files (e.g. generated by the keepdir command) are empty before. After compression they will have finite size and occupy one block.

Two possible solutions:
- don't compress empty .keep* files
- or, more general, don't compress any empty files

I can prepare a patch if you want. (It's a one-liner in ecompress ...)

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2010-10-14 07:40:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> - or, more general, don't compress any empty files

I like this option the best.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2010-10-14 07:51:22 UTC]

Created attachment 250531 [details, diff]
proposed patch

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2010-10-14 07:52:59 UTC]

That looks perfect.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2010-10-14 08:20:15 UTC]

It's in git now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=6d7f1ad1a4e514ee1a49228f17d3f1615712eb2b

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2010-10-16 03:38:03 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.19 and 2.2_rc97.