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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from rearviewmirror.org (sense-sea-CovadSub-0-150.oz.net [216.39.147.150]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2288E2015D6C for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:56:02 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 28944 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Mar 2002 17:52:44 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:52:43 -0800 From: Matt Beland To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d Message-ID: <20020311175243.GA28735@rearviewmirror.org> References: <3C8CEDD8.2000907@colubris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C8CEDD8.2000907@colubris.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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: 61dc41f1-81d8-4d1f-8f85-c8cc35991e17 X-Archives-Hash: 27b59e5e51bfe35b5d610832ad45fdf5 --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:48:08PM -0500, Yannick Koehler wrote: >=20 > Guys, >=20 > not sure for anyone else but is init.d really need to be protected? =20 > I mean does someone really change files in that directory (other than=20 > adding or removing)? >=20 > That dir should always get merged. It would also get really nice of=20 > the portage could detect that no changes has been made to the file since= =20 > its installation and therefore merge it without any issues. >=20 > Like if the protected config file's time were saved in a temp files=20 > that portage would look into before merging to see if the date has or no= t=20 > change since the last install. /etc/init.d/ should be protected, if nor no other reason than because it's = better=20 to err on the side of caution. I currently have four modified init.d/ scripts, plus three that either I or= a=20 compiled-from-source program created. If init.d were not protected, and an = update or emerge replaced one of those scripts without my knowledge, it could seri= ously hose up parts of the system. Nope. The current system works fine. At most, someone should be able to eas= ily=20 write a script to automatically copy init.d/ scripts into place.=20 --=20 Matt Beland matt@rearviewmirror.org http://www.rearviewmirror.org --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8jO7rBxcVTa6Gy5wRAsEyAJ96cl9fm0iEVMhPfMq2hDoCGs4sPwCfc5Qf qeUiMoTCO17p64x8UnPBtfk= =Phv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--