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On 27/11/2022 15:49, Mike Civil wrote: |
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> On 27/11/2022 14:50, Wol wrote: |
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>> Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro |
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>> updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-( |
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>> I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc. |
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>> Everything should "just work (tm)". |
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> Except that portage doesn't overwrite stuff under /etc by default. It |
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> saves the new config file and then tells you there's an update so you |
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> can use etc-update or dispatch-conf to check/merge/abort the changes. |
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> After all the new version of software may need a change to the old |
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> config file. |
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It's not portage I'm worried about, it's me! |
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Systemd DOES NOT PUT YOUR LOCAL CONFIG IN DANGER. |
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Dovecot DOES NOT PUT YOUR LOCAL CONFIG IN DANGER (if you do it properly). |
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EVERY SINGLE POSTFIX UPDATE PUTS YOUR CONFIG IN DANGER. |
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Of course, if you're Mr Perfect you won't have a problem. Why can't |
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postfix *protect* me, like systemd or dovecot do? |
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NB - The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy (such as it is now) says that the |
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distro should not be writing to /etc ! Default system state belongs in |
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/usr, live system state belongs in /etc, and if the distro updates /etc |
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it is basically corrupting system state. Which may or may not be |
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acceptable - and here it isn't. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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