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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next prev 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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