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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is not fun when...
From:       Greg <geflatt () hfx ! eastlink ! ca>
Date:       2002-12-12 18:38:30
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What would be nice is if portage knew which files I edited. Protected
them and autoupdate the ones that haven't been changed.

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:47, Sami Näätänen wrote:
> On Friday 13 December 2002 12:33, Henti Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:52:26 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > Ajay Sharma <ssharma@odc.net> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Rod Roark wrote:
> > > > rod root # emerge --update baselayout
> > > > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > > > ...
> > > > [much snipped]
> > > > ...
> > > >  * IMPORTANT: 39 config files in /etc need updating.
> > > >
> > > > Arrgh!
> > >
> > > 'etc-update' makes times like this not suck so much.
> >
> > A nice feature would still be to edit the one's you knwo needs
> > "manual" checking and then let it update the rest of the static ones
> > .. Usually I only merge or keep make.conf and a few others .. most
> > stuff in /etc/init.d can be updated as per normal ?
> >
> > any chance for such a feature ?
> 
> man make.conf
> 
> Look for CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK.
> 
> 
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