Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Stroller
<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:55 p.m., Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>>>
>>> Surely it should go in somewhere like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ instead.
>>>
>>> Making the original /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ directory read-only prevents updates and bug fixes being applied.
>>>
>>
>> Nobody suggested making the directory read-only.  They suggested
>> adding it to CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf, which treats the directory
>> the same as /etc with the need to merge changes.
>
> Ok, so you're saying that putting the CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf, makes the directory read-only only for portage, right?
>
> If you want to be precise, it tells portage not to write there, I think.
>
> Whichever way you want to spell it, doesn't this prevent updates and bug fixes from being applied?

Nope.  It just enabled configuration protection, as is the default for /etc.

So changes go into new files, and then you can merge them with
dispatch-conf or cfg-update or whatever your favorite tool for merging
config file changes is.

If somebody has a link to the docs for this please post it, as it
seems like this has disappeared from the handbook.  This used to be
Gentoo 101...

-- 
Rich