From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from sequel.washere.com (dsl092-079-131.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.79.131]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EFD2015D6C for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:58:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from wubble.genuity.com (wubble.washere.com [172.30.42.37]) by sequel.washere.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BD821484 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:41:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d From: Ric Mesier To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3C8CEDD8.2000907@colubris.com> References: <3C8CEDD8.2000907@colubris.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 11 Mar 2002 12:54:52 -0500 Message-Id: <1015869292.13991.20.camel@wubble.Genuity.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 01982485-986c-4409-bf60-59660aab34cd X-Archives-Hash: e2b61fcd0812c5cecf14687e6e962201 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 >