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On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 23:01, Zach Forrest wrote: |
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> OK, so I'm a little lazy. |
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> It might not be a bad idea to be able to type 'emerge --newconfigs' to |
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> make things a little more elegant. Either that or include a script with |
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> portage (see attachment). It may seem trivial for something so simple, |
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> but I think hiding implementation details is just good practice. If, for |
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> some reason (e.g. divine intervention), the naming of the config files |
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> changed, users wouldn't be affected. They could still type 'emerge |
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> --newconfigs' and do so with a smile. |
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Uhm, sound neat, but for one problem. What about stuff like net.eth0 |
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and so on that contains config settings ? Or passwd ? You would not |
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like to reboot and you cannot login anymore :) Ok, sure, we can |
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add exceptions to the rule (passwd, group, ...), but for the rest .. |
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The only solution will be if only stuff in /etc/init.d and some other |
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known files (that comes with baselayout, etc) gets updated, and ALL the |
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settings go into /etc/conf.d/ . But then we will have to start moving |
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all those fast, and since drobbins do not want to use /etc/conf.d/ for |
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the baselayout rc-scripts, it will be a problem .... |
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Greetings, |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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