----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Arbon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "gentoo-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates
Hello,
I'm just wondering if anyone here knows if anything is being done with etc-update or the baselayout package to stop it pointlessly trying up update a load of configuration files that I'm never going to let it touch every time it is updated?
It seems like baselayout's changed quite regularly recently (this is in the x86 branch) and every time it does I get asked to update: 1) /etc/DIR_COLORS 2) /etc/devfsd.conf 3) /etc/fstab 4) /etc/group 5) /etc/passwd 6) /etc/rc.conf 7) /etc/shadow 8) /etc/conf.d/net 9) /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
Aside from rc.conf and maybe devfsd.conf I can't think of a single one of those that should ever be replaced or merged with a vanilla copy. In fact with most of them accidentally replacing the file with a vanilla one would be somewhere between an annoyance and a major headache.
What if baselayout introduces a new group or user???? Think about it.
In that case it should be done by script, which at first checks the presence of the new user and then adds it to the copy of existing system passwd file (if necessary).
I am sorry, but I thing, that adding a new user by replaceing passwd file with new uniform passwd file (from baselayout), which do not fit to any configured system (except of just installed one) is a the most stupid way how it can be done. And I am sure that it's not only my opinion.
Happy New Year to everybody!
noro
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