Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
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?

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
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

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread maxim wexler
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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