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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:30:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090915163023.7a0c6ea2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAFAD3A.5000106@oversi.com>

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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:05:30 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:

> Still it would incur an etc-update event, wouldn't it? Then, an 
> absent-minded user (e.g. myself) could overwrite configuration when 
> subversion gets upgraded.

Yes, Gentoo gives you the gun, it's up to you to make sure it's not
pointing at your foot.

> I was thinking of maybe creating an 
> /etc/apache2/modules.d/471_mod_dav_svn.conf, which I could then freely 
> modify.

You could, but what if a change to the format in future introduces a
change in the other file incompatible with yours?

Learn to trust yourself with etc-update, you'll only screw up massively
once.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Strike any user to continue

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 14:17 [gentoo-user] configuring SVN repo w/apache w/o breaking dev-util/subversion Amit Dor-Shifer
2009-09-15 14:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-15 15:05   ` Amit Dor-Shifer
2009-09-15 15:30     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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