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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] How to prevent dispatch-conf from reverting valid changes
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:23:13
Message-Id: 1348397987.2085.79.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] How to prevent dispatch-conf from reverting valid changes by Pacho Ramos
1 El mié, 12-09-2012 a las 22:05 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
2 > El jue, 02-08-2012 a las 15:56 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
3 > > On 08/01/2012 03:19 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
4 > > > On every openrc update I get dispatch-conf wanting to revert all my
5 > > > changes in /etc/conf.d files, like KEYMAP, clock...
6 > > >
7 > > > Is there any way to prevent it from doing that?
8 > > >
9 > > > Thanks a lot for the info
10 > > >
11 > >
12 > > Maybe you want to add those config files to frozen-files in
13 > > /etc/dispatch-conf.conf.
14 > >
15 >
16 > The problem is that I don't really want to have that files frozen (as
17 > they could need important changes in future versions). What I expect if
18 > dispatch-conf to skip changes like changing an uncommented line with a
19 > commented line,
20
21 This looks like could be done with:
22 # Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments
23 # (yes or no)
24 replace-wscomments=no
25
26 , setting it to "yes" in dispatch-conf.conf
27
28 > or changing "YES" to "NO"... but it's probably difficult
29 > to detect :|

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