On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 00:28 -0400, Shawn Singh wrote: > Hey all, > > His experience is pretty interesting... > > Does portage keep track of settings so that you don't have reconfigure > it everytime you do an upgrade of a package? In other words, if (for > example) I emerge apache and it reconfigured to serve webs from > /var/www/html, instead of /usr/local/htdocs/ would portage get updated > with that new information?
in fact apache is configured to serve from /var/www/localhost/htdocs, although I understand users are encouraged to use a feature which provides virtualised services. I think you could make doubly sure that portage did not clobber your files by adding the base directory to CONFIG_PROTECT in /etc/make.conf > > Portage is pretty "smart" especially in comparison to other software > management tools (up2date, and mandrake update)...so I wouldn't be > surprised if it did. > > On Apr 4, 2005 5:03 PM, Mike Turcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello I just finished doing an emerge -uD world and portage updated > > apache2 along with numerous other things. I was wondering why I could > > not get my site working again till I realised that the upgrade process > > completely wiped the directory that my web site was stored in. What I > > don't understand is that the directory isn't even the default one that > > apache uses. How did this happen? And to put the icing on the cake, I > > did not have a backup, as I was planning on emerging a backup utility > > once world was done. > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
