On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:40:52 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Yes, etc-update shows it to your before asking what to do. Check the > > contents of each file before allowing it to be overwritten, and never, > > ever let etc-update overwrite etc/fstab, /etc/passwd or /etc/group. > > CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK work at the *DIRECTORY* level.
That will change soon IIRC. > What I really want/need is a feature that allows additional protection > *FOR INDIVIDUAL FILES*. E.g... You don't understand what CONFIG_PROTECT means, it prevents files being automatically overwritten during installation, leaving them to you to update. > - my customized /etc/conf.d/local.start or /etc/conf.d/local.stop > should *NEVER* be replaced with an empty version Agreed. > - /etc/rc.conf should be left alone too. ***FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, > NO I DO NOT WANT NANO REPLACING VIM AS MY "EDITOR"*** How would you know about changes to rc.conf? Either new features or changes in the way things are done would pass you by. > And the list goes on and on. Howsabout an environmental variable > CONFIG_PROTECT_FILES, containing a list of protected files? I'm ready > to submit a feature request if necessary. Does anybody have additional > comments? As I've mentioned several times before, there was a patch to dispatch-conf to do just this. You added the files you didn't want touching, ever, to a line in the config file. Unfortunately, the patch hasn't been updated for a couple of years and stopped working a while ago. Why not re-open the bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68618 -- Neil Bothwick If you think that you can truncate my sig to 75 chars, then you can just fu
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