Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:48:34 -0700, Mike S wrote:
ok I have many questions this time. I set this variable before but for
get where it was. There is something that emerge can to to
automatically write over existing configuration files. And when I
first installed gentoo I set it to do that, not knowing how annoying it
could be. Now I hope someone can help me in changing that back, as
when I ran emerge world a lot of settings were deleted, some of which
have been easy to change, and some not.
The variable is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, set in /etc/make.conf. It sound
slike you set it to "/etc", which is a dangerous thing to do, especially
when you emerge a baselayout update and your fstab and passwd files get
overwritten. Comment out the setting in make.conf, or set it to contain
only directories where you know it is safe for emerge to overwrite files.
I have it set to "/etc/init.d".
well I checked the /etc/make.conf file, and yes you were right (almost)
I am not sure what the difference is, but I am sure that I will find out
sooner or later, instead of CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK variable set to
something I had CONFIG_PROTECT="-*". So for the time being I just
commented that line out, and will maybe change it once I learn more
about it.
I will investigate the difference between CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK and
CONFIG_PROTECT and see what the difference is (if any), or if they are
merely the same variable with different names, which I have noticed on
some distributions happens because of multiple developers not all
keeping up to speed with each other. Though from what I have see so far
gentoo is one of the more professional distributions and that will
probably not be the case.
Thanks Neil,
--Mike S
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