On 10/01/2010 02:10 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/01/2010 12:12 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >>> Right, so a few weeks later when they re-merge a binpkg, they suddenly >>> get build failures again. And that confuses them since it's >>> unexpected. This is in general a bad experience for stable users who >>> want to get work done, not baby-sit their system. >> >> Maybe advise them to use post_pkg_preinst instead of post_src_install, >> so it works even for binary packages. >> > > If that won't cause problems with portage-2.1.9 (mtime/checksum > messiness, for example; you're the best judge for this), then we > should do it.
It won't cause problems because the mtime/checksum stuff is all done after preinst, immediately as the files are being merged. -- Thanks, Zac
