Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Tuesday 08 Dec 2015 03:29:45 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Stroller wrote: > > That's like telling your grandma, "you don't know what DNS is? this is > > internet 101 - you use DNS all the time". > > > > I have not needed to add

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

> On Sun, 6 December 2015, at 6:49 p.m., Rich Freeman wrote: > > If somebody has a link to the docs for this please post it, as it > seems like this has disappeared from the handbook. This used to be > Gentoo 101… That seems like a somewhat dubious statement, if it wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Stroller wrote: > >> On Sun, 6 December 2015, at 6:49 p.m., Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> If somebody has a link to the docs for this please post it, as it >> seems like this has disappeared from the handbook. This

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

> On Mon, 7 December 2015, at 9:24 p.m., Rich Freeman wrote: > > It wasn't really targeted at anybody in particular. It just should be > clear in the documentation since config protection and merging config > changes is a big part of administering a Gentoo system. It

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Stroller wrote: > >> On Mon, 7 December 2015, at 9:24 p.m., Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> It wasn't really targeted at anybody in particular. It just should be >> clear in the documentation since config protection and

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Stroller wrote: > > That's like telling your grandma, "you don't know what DNS is? this is > internet 101 - you use DNS all the time". > > I have not needed to add directories to CONFIG_PROTECT, or alter it in any > way, in over 10

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

> On Tue, 8 December 2015, at 12:29 a.m., Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> It seems just a tad exotic to me, as I haven't used or needed it in over 10 >> years. > > You never run etc-update or dispatch-conf? If you do, you're using > it. You're just using its default

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:55 p.m., Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Surely it should go in somewhere like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ >> instead. >> >> Making the original /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ directory read-only prevents >> updates and bug fixes being applied.

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 4:13 p.m., gevisz wrote: >> >> Surely it should go in somewhere like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ >> instead. > > I do not have /usr/local/share directory at all. Do you think it is wrong? Local directories are ones which you can create to

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Stroller wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:55 p.m., Rich Freeman >> wrote: >>> >>> Surely it should go in somewhere like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ >>> instead. >>> >>> Making the original

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 13:49:15 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Ok, so you're saying that putting the CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf, > > makes the directory read-only only for portage, right? > Nope. It just enabled configuration protection, as is the default > for /etc. > > So changes go into new

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already > edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten > during the next system update. Add it to CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf. -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

Recently, I finally created my own keyboard layout by edining /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file. In the nearest future, I also will edit the corresponding xml file that provides the menu for the xfce4 keyboard layout switch plugin file deleting from it all the entries about keyboard layouts for

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 14:10 GMT+02:00 Peter Humphrey : > On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > >> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten >> during the next system update. > > Add it to

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > >> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten >> during the next

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Stroller wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey >> wrote: >> >> On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: >> >>> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:55:30PM +0200, gevisz wrote: > > So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already > edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten > during the next system update. Thabk you. > Use a configuration management tool like puppet or ansible. It

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

On Friday 04 December 2015 12:38:16 Stroller wrote: > > On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey > > wrote:> > > On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > >> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already > >> edited

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 14:38 GMT+02:00 Stroller : > >> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey >> wrote: >> >> On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: >> >>> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >>> edited