On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Graham Murray wrote:
> > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a
> > > file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The
> > > config protection mechanism works only for existing files.
> > > There's no way to tell Portage that I want to be alerted of
> > > _new config files too.
> >
> > Which is maybe something worth raising an enhancement bug on,
>
> Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177560
>
> Quote:
> " When a file under CONFIG_PROTECT doesn't exist yet, Portage
> simply installs it. It would be nice to have an option (say
> --protectforreal) that makes emerge create a .cfg_0000_* file also
> when the destination file does not exist yet in the CONFIG_PROTECT
> area. When first installing a system, one wouldn't want to use
> this option, but once a system is fully installed and stable, I
> wish to know about every change and addition in /etc."
>
> Benno
It's an original idea, but the first comment to the report isn't
encouraging...
I would add in a comment to the bug a pointer to the mailing list
archive, but i can't find one, maybe reading this thread would be more
convincing.
Ciao
Francesco
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