Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to protect *INDIVIDUAL FILES* against etc-update?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:06:40AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote

> I suspect you don't really understand what CONFIG_PROTECT{,_MASK} is. Please 
> read the output of `emerge --help --config`. All the files you've mentioned 
> are covered by CONFIG_PROTECT in a default configuration so if they aren't it 
> means you've screwed up your CONFIG_PROTECT and/or CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK 
> variables. Otherwise it is you who overwrote those files with 
> etc-update/dispatch-conf or whatever you use for that.

  Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough.  It works as designed.  I did
not overwrite the files, but I'm getting annoyed at having to tell
etc-update "NO" every few weeks when I run etc-update.  There are
anywhere from 10 to 40 files to plow through.  And I have a 7-year-old
PIII Dell as my emergency backup machine, so I repeat the process all
over again.

  What worries me is that one of these days I'll hit the wrong key (Y
instead of N) and zap a config file.  Yes, I do have backups, but how
long will it take me to realize what's happened?  What I'm asking for is
a way to pre-emptively tell etc-update not to bother me about certain
files.  Zap the new version and keep the old.

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