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 1GZZZo-00089j-EF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:00:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9GKvIJe019193; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:57:18 GMT Received: from web31705.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31705.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9GKrqnN032272 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:53:53 GMT Received: (qmail 30361 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Oct 2006 20:53:52 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=RaSXtnMjxpnE0k9Jgcz36hZhCFoTtRDmRTogUTvf36ofXhnO7KzsZ/gurodPtXjLdwR6v3/76ecZsZSJldsrm9URibK+Am0DYgbLe3e+mgrtptrrJzN7u/wcL5f7RLqAid2eBX4s/Kq7/SfYbxR6mCxxuHg5DsiQJz4HcfBwbHk= ; Message-ID: <20061016205352.30359.qmail@web31705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.228.98.22] by web31705.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:53:52 PDT Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:53:52 -0700 (PDT) From: maxim wexler Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200610151210.10350.bss03@volumehost.net> 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 03568d36-0325-4e26-9508-fbcb1d169e3b X-Archives-Hash: 501afca83c73282e601d2fd3d2f273cf Please see my reply to Neil re this thread > Once you marked some directories from protection, > emerge will, instead of > using the file from a package, install the file from > a package > as ._cfg- (or somesuch). Tools like > dispatch-conf and > etc-update are then used to merge your file with the > one(s) > named ._cfg-. I replied(to Neil) before remembering why I put CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" in my make.conf(if that's the problem here). Now it comes back to me. Whenever I used to emerge something there'd inevitably be a long followup where I had to answer y/n to a list of files that were due to be overwritten IIRC. From a forum I was advised to write the above CONFIG_PROTECT line. That's when was I new to gentoo and I haven't changed it since. But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? -Maxim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list