Zac Medico posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:35:06 -0700 as excerpted: > If a CONFIG_PROTECTed file was installed but no longer exists in the > file system, then it may have been deleted or renamed by the admin. > Therefore, force the file to be merged with a ._cfg name, so that the > admin will be prompted for this update. > > X-Gentoo-Bug: 523684 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523684
I've experienced this very problem myself -- no way to config-protect an actual deletion of a file. Back on openrc, I ended up with several initscripts symlinked to a "null" script that was basically a comment reminding myself to delete the update. I'm on systemd now, and it has the concept of symlinking a unitfile to /dev/null to force-disable it, which helps, but I've seen the problem with a few other files as well over the years, so would love to have this functionality available. Thank you! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
