Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > 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. > > Or CONFIG_PROTECT /etc/cron.* to protect the whole lot from the > same thing with any other ebuild as well
/etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The config protection mechanism works only for existing files. There's no way to tell Portage that I want to be alerted of _new config files too. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
