Brock Pytlik wrote:

> >     http://cr.opensolaris.org/~dduvall/pkg-conflict-preserve/
>
> Just for my own understanding, overlay is entirely a debug/testing
> attribute?

It's actually a private hook for the distro constructor, so that their
slim_cd package can overwrite /etc/passwd and friends.  Shawn's sent out a
counter-proposal for this which is more general.

> The other thing that confused me a bit was on line 390 in file.py, why is
> renameold.update treated differently than renameold or renamenew?

I don't recall how that works; that's Shawn's change.

Danek
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