Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

On 2024.06.15 02:38, Vitaliy Perekhovy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 04:54:09PM -0400, Jack wrote:
> > I don't have any such directory.  What package does it belong to,  
> or is
> > it a config setting for portage or another package?
> 
> Yes, it is a configuration of portage itself. There is an env variable
> CONFIG_PROTECT that contains a list of directories that portage will
> protect from automatic modification. Please check this article:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CONFIG_PROTECT
> 
> You can query that variable by `portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT'.
/etc is the first entry in my CONFIG_PROTECT, but I still have no  
config-archive under /etc.  I think the folders listed in that variable  
are treated specially by portage in terms of not silently replacing  
config files, but doesn't control save/archive.

A bit of searching found the wiki page for dispatch-conf, which  
includes:

Before running dispatch-conf for the first time, the settings in  
/etc/dispatch-conf.conf should be edited, and the archive directory  
specified in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf will need to be created  
(/etc/config-archive by default).

So it appears that directory may be specific to that tool, and not  
directly related to portage.