Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to protect *INDIVIDUAL FILES* against etc-update?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:57:57 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough.  It works as designed.  I did
> not overwrite the files, but I'm getting annoyed at having to tell
> etc-update "NO" every few weeks when I run etc-update.  There are
> anywhere from 10 to 40 files to plow through.  And I have a 7-year-old
> PIII Dell as my emergency backup machine, so I repeat the process all
> over again.

I've fixed the dispatch-conf patch in Bug #68618 to work with the latest
dispatch-conf. Add a line to /etc/dispatch-conf to specify files to be
ignored by dispatch-conf like

frozen="/etc/rc.conf /etc/conf.d/clock"

 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68618


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Neil Bothwick

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