[gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[Zac Medico]

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I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous discussion
here:

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml
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Thanks,
Zac

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Title: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default
Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2012-05-21
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.61

Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.61, FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified
is enabled by default. This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped
for files that have not been modified since they were installed.

If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set
FEATURES="-config-protect-if-modified" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man
page for more information about this feature.

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Zac Medico wrote:

> Title: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

The title must not be longer than 44 characters, see GLEP 42.
(And eselect news relies on this, so it may truncate longer titles.)

Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[Zac Medico]

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On 05/17/2012 03:32 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Zac Medico wrote:
> 
>> Title: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default
> 
> The title must not be longer than 44 characters, see GLEP 42.
> (And eselect news relies on this, so it may truncate longer titles.)
> 
> Ulrich
> 

Okay, the attached version has a shorter title.

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Thanks,
Zac

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Title: Portage config-protect-if-modified default
Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2012-05-21
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.61

Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.61, FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified
is enabled by default. This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped
for files that have not been modified since they were installed.

If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set
FEATURES="-config-protect-if-modified" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man
page for more information about this feature.

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[Michał Górny]

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On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:44:42 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous
> discussion here:
> 
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml

Hmm, I think your should elaborate more on what the effects will be to
the final user.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[Jeff Horelick]

On 17 May 2012 23:56, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:44:42 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous
>> discussion here:
>>
>> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml
>
> Hmm, I think your should elaborate more on what the effects will be to
> the final user.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny

I'm not sure there's a great need. Users are generally pretty smart.
They just don't like change. :P

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[Zac Medico]

On 05/17/2012 08:56 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:44:42 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous
>> discussion here:
>>
>> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml
> 
> Hmm, I think your should elaborate more on what the effects will be to
> the final user.

I think they should be competent enough to understand the effects. If
you want to provide a patch to the news item then, adding whatever
elaboration you think is necessary, then I'll gladly apply it.
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Thanks,
Zac

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default

[Duncan]

Zac Medico posted on Thu, 17 May 2012 23:08:51 -0700 as excerpted:

> On 05/17/2012 08:56 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:44:42 -0700 Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous
>>> discussion here:
>>>
>>> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/
msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml
>> 
>> Hmm, I think your should elaborate more on what the effects will be to
>> the final user.
> 
> I think they should be competent enough to understand the effects. If
> you want to provide a patch to the news item then, adding whatever
> elaboration you think is necessary, then I'll gladly apply it.

Indeed, the news item already refers people to the manpage for more 
information.

While a good gentooer certainly appreciates good documentation, it's not 
about handholding, and from my point of view the manpage documentation 
really is pretty good.  If they don't know what to do with a referral to 
a manpage (or from the direct lookup in that manpage to the general 
config-protect info in the same manpage, and from there to the config 
files section of the emerge manpage where there's several paragraphs of 
coverage), I'd say "ubuntu's over that-a-way, and mint's over there!"

New items should be brief and to the point, serving more as a road sign 
with only an arrow letting people know there's a change in direction 
ahead with an expectation that the driver seeing it can follow the arrow 
and look at what's coming once so alerted, than a complete reference work 
of their own.  Really, as a user, that's what I want and need, that road-
sign telling me what direction the road is turning, not a full 
description of all the engineering data contained in the road-building 
documents, that I couldn't read at road speed anyway.

And that's what this is, as it is. =:^)

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