Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d

[Ric Mesier <kilroy@WasHere.COM>]

Not sure I need /etc/init.d to be touched once I have it working because
I sometimes make minor alterations to files in there that I'd rather not
get clobbered. One thing that frustrated me, tho, was the difficulty in
checking the differences in the new files in /etc. I may actually get up
the ambition to write a script to do a batch diff on all the files in
the various /etc directories.

One thing that did frustrate me while I was looking at the changes
manually was that some files showed very minor diffs. /etc/pwdb.conf
showed alterations on all the lines. Some of them, to my recollection
had the ordering changed and perhaps some spacing that was different. It
might also be useful to know why the changes were made so I can make a
determination as to whether I merge the changes in or not. Or was there
an emerge command for some of this?

Ric


On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 12:48, Yannick Koehler wrote:
> 
> Guys,
> 
> 	not sure for anyone else but is init.d really need to be protected?  I 
> mean does someone really change files in that directory (other than 
> adding or removing)?
> 
> 	That dir should always get merged.  It would also get really nice of the 
> portage could detect that no changes has been made to the file since its 
> installation and therefore merge it without any issues.
> 
> 	Like if the protected config file's time were saved in a temp files that 
> portage would look into before merging to see if the date has or not 
> change since the last install.
> 
> Yannick Koehler
>