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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to protect *INDIVIDUAL FILES* against etc-update?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:11:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061017141110.13f8cff4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061016215757.GA14528@waltdnes.org>

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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:57:57 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   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.

I've fixed the dispatch-conf patch in Bug #68618 to work with the latest
dispatch-conf. Add a line to /etc/dispatch-conf to specify files to be
ignored by dispatch-conf like

frozen="/etc/rc.conf /etc/conf.d/clock"

 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68618


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Don't forget that MS-Windows is just a temporary workaround until you can
switch to a GNU system.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-17 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-11 16:00 [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod maxim wexler
2006-10-11 16:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-12 14:44   ` maxim wexler
2006-10-12 17:10     ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-13 15:22       ` maxim wexler
2006-10-13 15:33         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-15  4:40           ` [gentoo-user] Is it possible to protect *INDIVIDUAL FILES* against etc-update? Walter Dnes
2006-10-15  7:06             ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-16 21:57               ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-17  0:47                 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-18  4:09                   ` Walter Dnes
2006-10-17 13:11                 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-10-15 12:27             ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-17 13:16               ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-17 14:28                 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-13 23:51   ` [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmod Drew
2006-10-11 18:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-11 21:31 ` [gentoo-user] where to put mknod & chmo Richard Fish

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