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On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:36:20 +0200, Gevisz wrote: |
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> > > I was afraid to run etc-update as man says it will replace |
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> > > everything automatically. However, I run dispatch-conf and it does |
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> > > not see any problems at /etc/ssh, which have only the following |
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> > > three files: moduli, ssh_config, sshd_config (though I have |
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> > > added /etc/ssh to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK). |
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> > Why did you do that? By masking out config file protection |
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> > for /etc/ssh there will never be anything to be managed by etc-update |
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> > as you have told portage to replace those files blindly and without |
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> > asking. |
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> From man "dispatch-conf": |
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CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK is a make.conf setting, read that man page. It means |
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your config files are overwritten at install time, way be for you run |
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dispatch-conf or one of its friends. |
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> dispatch-conf will check all directories in the CONFIG_PROTECT |
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> variable. All config files found in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK will |
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> automatically be updated for you by dispatch-conf. |
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> 3) I will continue to do this job manually with gvimdiff as I have |
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> found it much more convenient than dispatch-conf (gvimdiff shows |
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> the differences a way much better). |
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I prefer conf-update but most of these tools allow you to specify your |
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own diff program if you don't like the default. I use colordiff with |
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conf-update. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with. |
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