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From: Eray Aslan <eras@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 10:17:16
Message-Id: 4FB37E60.2050502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default? by Fabio Erculiani
1 On 2012-05-16 12:56 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
2 > Generally, several PMS (I think apt does it as well) make this assumption:
3 > if config file C owned by package P has never been modified, meaning
4 > that md5 or whatever is the same, the old C of P was fine, so is the
5 > new C.
6
7 Yep, and I always thought that Gentoo way of dealing with config files
8 was much better -both compared to .deb and .rpm land- in this regard.
9 Presenting the diff is a quick and efficient way to highlight the
10 changes and ask the sysadmin to make the necessary changes if any.
11
12 I am not bothered with the (frequency of?) diffs but I guess people are.
13
14 > This also helps a lot in the scenario where critical configuration
15 > files are not updated before reboot, which might result in an
16 > unbootable system (ouch!).
17
18 Well, that is true. If you forget to dispatch-conf, it might bite you.
19
20 Anyway, no big deal either way though I prefer the status quo. If we
21 make the change, make it with enough fanfare that users notice.
22
23 --
24 Eray Aslan <eras@g.o>

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