Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

[Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>]

> Protected Locations
> ===================
> 
> Protected locations are determined by the ``CONFIG_PROTECT`` environment
> variable, which is defined in the profiles and which may be augmented or
> overridden by the current environment and user configuration files. This
> variable contains a space separated list of values which are matched against the
> beginning of a full file path and name of files to be installed.

"which are matched against the beginning of a full file path" would mean
that e.g. CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc/foo" would protect the following:

/etc/foobar/doh
/etc/foo
/etc/foobaz

.. or did I misunderstand something here? I don't know whether that is
the current behaviour of portage, but IMO it certainly shouldn't be. It
should rather be

/etc/foo (file)
or, if /etc/foo is a dir:
/etc/foo/*

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Kind Regards,

Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 developer
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