Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869.

2014-01-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 20 January 2014 22:53:25 Gordon Pettey wrote: If your going to make that argumint, ewe mite a's well right the documentation in LOL-1337. Encouraging bad grammar in documentation just make's thing's harder for everybody. (1) don't top post (2) you posted nothing to support your

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869.

2014-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 19 January 2014 05:39:25 Alexander Berntsen wrote: On 19/01/14 10:17, Mike Frysinger wrote: prefer OSes - OS's That's just not proper English. i don't think that phrase means what you think it means. if you're wishing for English to be a standard, then you're in for a rude

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869.

2014-01-20 Thread Gordon Pettey
If your going to make that argumint, ewe mite a's well right the documentation in LOL-1337. Encouraging bad grammar in documentation just make's thing's harder for everybody. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sunday 19 January 2014 05:39:25 Alexander

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869.

2014-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 18 January 2014 21:00:48 Chris Reffett wrote: --- /dev/null +++ b/pym/portage/util/rochecker.py @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +#-*- coding:utf-8 -*- +# Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation +# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 + +Methods to check whether Portage is

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869.

2014-01-19 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/14 10:17, Mike Frysinger wrote: prefer OSes - OS's That's just not proper English. It makes no sense. Please don't prefer that. If for nothing else, then to prevent me from sighing whenever I have to read it. not a new issue, but we

[gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] Test for read-only filesystems, bail out during preinst if there are any which will be written to and display a useful error message. Fixes bug 378869.

2014-01-18 Thread Chris Reffett
v2: Reformat, add a function to return an appropriate read-only checker for the operating system, so that this can be extended to other OSes. v3: minor formatting tweaks from bernalex, including use os.path.join() instead of string concatenation --- pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py | 32