-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: > ยท Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Philip Webb wrote: >>> 060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: >>>> Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? >>> It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, >>> eg esp during a package update. >>> >> I believe it is to do with how tar handles directories. If there are no >> files in a dir, tar won't include the dir in the archive. > > Nope, tar doesn't have anything to do with this. > > [ ... snip Alexander's tar test ... ] > > > Alexander Skwar I believe it has something to do with portage. For example, if a package being unmerged wants to remove that directory, it will leave it alone if there is a .keep file there.
- -- gentux echo "hfouvyyAhnbjm/dpn" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 5495 0388 67FF 0B89 1239 D840 4CF0 39E2 18D3 4A9E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6geWTPA54hjTSp4RAilBAJ9As7oI9+dgc6gI7sxzrCVr7lK7ZgCfagGa eqXSrxVaL1WfytmW0jPRAPM= =iZgd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
