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| From: | Jeremy Huddleston <jeremy@×××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | stuart@g.o | ||
| Cc: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT | ||
| Date: | Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:46:21 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1077993975.7937.9.camel@eradicator.outersquare.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT by Stuart Herbert |
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| 1 | On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 02:55, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
| 2 | > I agree with Jason - a config file that hasn't been modified shouldn't be |
| 3 | > config-protected. No information is lost when the file is removed, and if a |
| 4 | > Gentoo user has edited the file, it'll get picked up because of the change in |
| 5 | > timestamp and md5sum. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | It should be left. Consider this case: |
| 8 | $ emerge packageA |
| 9 | /etc/services is modified to contain a reference for packageA |
| 10 | |
| 11 | $ emerge packageB |
| 12 | /etc/services is modified to contain a reference for packageB |
| 13 | |
| 14 | $ emerge unmerge packageB |
| 15 | say good bye to /etc/services |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT | Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT | Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT | Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> |