Well guys if you have a good solution, then bring it up to the developer, but writing a script for every shit and putting it into portage is not what I want, gentoo is still lean but mean, if you have problems with manually checking those kind of files after emerge, I think you are not using the right distro. I updated baselayout once, so I checked those files, I think it is no big deal, it even forces me to check if there were any changes or improvements.
As soon as gentoo starts to create scripts for any crap I switch again to another distro, the advantage of not having tools for anything is, that those tools can't break. Look at Suse RedHat Mandrake, 30% of their bugs come from the tools they wrote. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norbert Kamenicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates > SN wrote: > > ----- 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 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
