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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Am Thu, 4 Aug 2011 23:32:39 +0900
schrieb flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>: 

> Whether staging BUILD in addition to INSTALL makes sense or not I
> suppose would depend on your level of paranoia that something in BUILD
> can overwrite existings files in the live host filesystem (which I
> suppose could happen, but would be a very broken build).

The issue is more that some builds need that self-conflict cruft because they 
would get wrong ideas with the old installation (or relatives of the old 
version) still present ... but with arbitrary complex (build) scripts running 
as root (...), a bit of paranoia to control the effects of any step on the 
file system is healthy, IMHO.

> could be added as a later option? I'm personally more concerned with the
> case of dispel before install vs. install before dispel, as mentioned
> above.

I agree that this is a _big_ point. I think installing over the existing 
files and then cleanup leftovers via install logs would be less disruptive; 
although still far from the optimal solution of full staging and 
user-determined merge into the file system (what flux is doing with the 
chroot, sort of).


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

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