On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > /etc/cron.daily/slocate > > > > contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. > > Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. > > Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with > '## Placeholder, do not delete.' > > Otherwise a revision of the slocate ebuild will put the script back > into the daily dir without saying anything. Quite annoying. The > placeholder will cause an etc-update message. > > Benno
Or CONFIG_PROTECT /etc/cron.* to protect the whole lot from the same thing with any other ebuild as well There can be few things more annoying than to have some arb ebuild nuke your carefully crafted crontabs... -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
