From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZ9Zn-0006My-4d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:15:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9FHCug1025620; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:12:56 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9FH9wvN009043 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:09:59 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECB22389 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:09:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Mm7HIi2zKtaT for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:09:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658F8241B for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:09:56 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:10:05 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20061015153410.49257.qmail@web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061015153410.49257.qmail@web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart10294224.UGbq385BGG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200610151210.10350.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 269efe60-31c5-43f2-9c13-937185cf1284 X-Archives-Hash: 9d633ab702f21a31561a621657ce8b33 --nextPart10294224.UGbq385BGG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:34, maxim wexler wrote=20 about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED': > One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without > telling me or leaving any record was > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko > failed to load. That wasn't dispatch-conf, it was emerge since you've told it not to=20 protect any configuration files. > localhost heathen # portageq config_protect > > localhost heathen # portageq config_protect_mask > /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo You've told portage not to protect *any* config files. It did as you=20 asked, and used the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 included in a=20 package. You might consider restoring the default config_protect, or at least part=20 of it. From my system: $ portageq config_protect /etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/= share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config Once you marked some directories from protection, emerge will, instead of=20 using the file from a package, install the file from a package=20 as ._cfg- (or somesuch). Tools like dispatch-conf and=20 etc-update are then used to merge your file with the one(s)=20 named ._cfg-. =2D-=20 "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." =2D- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh --nextPart10294224.UGbq385BGG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFMmtyq72nDbhDXToRAirYAJoCn4fROFCZFy/PjWtrf4RIhIqR/QCeNLn8 fvoHShw0RFkDt4/vBVnWGQE= =gs7X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart10294224.UGbq385BGG-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list