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

[Per Wigren <wigren@home.se>]

How about having a "magic line" like:
###PROTECTED###
or something? Then emerge can overwrite the file if that line doesn't exist.. 

// Wigren

Monday 11 March 2002 19.02 skrev du:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:48:08PM -0500, Yannick Koehler spoke thusly:
> > 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.
>
> Yes it needs to be protected. I, for instance, have my own version of
> pcmcia in there that I don't want stepped on. Also, I have a couple of
> other custom scripts for things not in portage yet; and when they are in
> portage, I want to be able to compare the differences before using one
> or the other.
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