UNINSTALL_PROTECT in Paludis #2

Update: Check this for a better performing python version of this hook.

I need to make a follow-up again as the hack described in my previous post is now obsolote as Paludis' trunk has now _override hooks for merger and unmerger actions. They are a little different than all the hooks till now as their effect is determined from their output, more specifically unmerger_unlink_*_override has two options:

• "skip" - skips the action
• "force" - force it (without the usual tests like type or mtime check)

And merger_install_*_override has only the "skip" option. Also no output means the default.

Let me show an example:

/etc/paludis/hooks/unmerger_unlink_file_override/uninstall_protect.hook:

#!/bin/bash

UNINSTALL_PROTECT="/lib64/modules/"

hook_run_unmerger_unlink_file_override() {
    for PROTECT in ${UNINSTALL_PROTECT}; do
        if [[ "${UNLINK_TARGET}" == "${PROTECT}"* ]]; then
            echo "skip"
        fi
    done
}

As easily you can make INSTALL_MASK hook and others...

This and more in forthcoming 0.26.