On 03/15/2018 12:22 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are three of four INSTALL_MASK updates I've sent long time ago
> which were not really reviewed. The fourth patch added support
> for repo-defined install-mask.conf and I'll do that separately.
> 
> Those patches focus on smaller changes. What they change, in order:
> 
> 1. Removes explicit file removal code for FEATURES=no*. Instead, those
>    values are converted into additional INSTALL_MASK entries
>    and handled directly via INSTALL_MASK processing.
> 
> 2. Rework INSTALL_MASK to filter files while installing instead of
>    pre-stripping them. In other words, before: INSTALL_MASK removes
>    files from ${D} before merge. After: ${D} contains all the files,
>    Portage just skip INSTALL_MASK-ed stuff, verbosely indicating that.
> 
> 3. Adds support for exclusions in INSTALL_MASK. In other words, you
>    can do stuff like:
> 
>      INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/locale -/usr/share/locale/en_US"
> 
> I have been using this via user patches since the last submission.
> Guessing by 'git log', this means almost 2 years now.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
> 
> Michał Górny (3):
>   portage.package.ebuild.config: Move FEATURES=no* handling there
>   portage.dbapi.vartree: Move INSTALL_MASK handling into merging
>   portage.dbapi.vartree: Support exclusions in INSTALL_MASK
> 
>  bin/misc-functions.sh                |  30 ----------
>  pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py         | 104 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  pym/portage/package/ebuild/config.py |  11 ++++
>  3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
> 

As mentioned in #gentoo-portage today, the rationale for including the
INSTALL_MASKed files in CONTENTS is to that we can detect collisions
that would have occurred had people not been using INSTALL_MASK.

Since people can use INSTALL_MASK to intentionally prevent collisions,
in cases where COLLISION_IGNORE is not appropriate (this is common
practice at my workplace), we'll need a new FEATURES setting to trigger
the new behavior where INSTALL_MASKed files still trigger file collisions.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac

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