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On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:50:02 +0200, Gevisz wrote: |
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> On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:16:20 +0000 |
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> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK is a make.conf setting, read that man page. It |
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> > means your config files are overwritten at install time, way be for |
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> > you run dispatch-conf or one of its friends. |
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> The man page for make.conf actually refers to the CONFIGURATION FILES |
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> section of emerge man page. There, indeed, everything explained very |
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> clearly and in details. However, it does not work so for my system. |
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> Thus, I have the following settings |
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> $ echo $CONFIG_PROTECT |
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> /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt |
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CONFIG_PROTECT is not a global environment variable. Also, variables like |
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this are not only set in make.conf but in profiles and even on |
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the command line. Read man portage for more detail. |
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The correct way to see what settings are in place is to run emerge --info |
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emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT |
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> And this, in my view, contradicts with the following statement from |
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> emerge man pages: "Protected directories are set using the |
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> CONFIG_PROTECT variable", as in my case /etc have not been set in |
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> my CONFIG_PROTECT variable. |
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See above. /etc is protected in the base profile, inherited by all others. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." |
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(Albert Einstein) |
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