Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED
On Monday 16 October 2006 15:53, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED': But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? Gentoo provides defaults for both values. Your value in /etc/make.conf overrides the default(s). -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpAywddX6dNH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED
On Monday 16 October 2006 22:53, maxim wexler wrote: But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? Looking at the output of the following commands should answer your question. # env | grep ^CONFIG_PROTECT # find /etc/env.d | xargs grep CONFIG_PROTECT # grep CONFIG_PROTECT /etc/profile.env # grep -A 1 profile.env /etc/profile -- Bo Andresen pgpFGPZt5JJJ6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?
If you really have an empty CONFIG_PROTECT, dispatch-conf didn't touch this file, it was replaced during emerge. You must fix this before emerging anything else or you will overwrite more config files. What do emerge --info | grep CONFIG and grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf show? localhost heathen # emerge --info | grep CONFIG CONFIG_PROTECT= CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo localhost heathen # grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf CONFIG_PROTECT=-* __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?
On Monday 16 October 2006 22:26, maxim wexler wrote: localhost heathen # grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf CONFIG_PROTECT=-* WHY did you set that?? Remove it! Read the output of: # emerge --help --config -- Bo Andresen pgp3pkcTQCinJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED
Please see my reply to Neil re this thread Once you marked some directories from protection, emerge will, instead of using the file from a package, install the file from a package as ._cfg-filename (or somesuch). Tools like dispatch-conf and etc-update are then used to merge your file with the one(s) named ._cfg-filename. I replied(to Neil) before remembering why I put CONFIG_PROTECT=-* in my make.conf(if that's the problem here). Now it comes back to me. Whenever I used to emerge something there'd inevitably be a long followup where I had to answer y/n to a list of files that were due to be overwritten IIRC. From a forum I was advised to write the above CONFIG_PROTECT line. That's when was I new to gentoo and I haven't changed it since. But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:26:37 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: localhost heathen # emerge --info | grep CONFIG CONFIG_PROTECT= You've told portage to overwrite any config files in /etc, or anywhere else, whenever you update a package. dispatch-conf certainly isn't to blame, the damage is self-inflicted. -- Neil Bothwick Phasers don't kill people...Unless you set them too high. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED
One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without telling me or leaving any record was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko failed to load. What is the output of: # portageq config_protect and # portageq config_protect_mask localhost heathen # portageq config_protect localhost heathen # portageq config_protect_mask /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo localhost heathen # -Maxim __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:34:10 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without telling me or leaving any record was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko failed to load. localhost heathen # portageq config_protect If you really have an empty CONFIG_PROTECT, dispatch-conf didn't touch this file, it was replaced during emerge. You must fix this before emerging anything else or you will overwrite more config files. What do emerge --info | grep CONFIG and grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf show? -- Neil Bothwick mandelbug /man'del-buhg/ n. [from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED
On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:34, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED': One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without telling me or leaving any record was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko failed to load. That wasn't dispatch-conf, it was emerge since you've told it not to protect any configuration files. localhost heathen # portageq config_protect localhost heathen # portageq config_protect_mask /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo You've told portage not to protect *any* config files. It did as you asked, and used the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 included in a package. You might consider restoring the default config_protect, or at least part of it. From my system: $ portageq config_protect /etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config Once you marked some directories from protection, emerge will, instead of using the file from a package, install the file from a package as ._cfg-filename (or somesuch). Tools like dispatch-conf and etc-update are then used to merge your file with the one(s) named ._cfg-filename. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpqGNXS1EjWk.pgp Description: PGP signature
