Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 October 2006 22:53, maxim wexler wrote: > But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping > make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? Looking at the output of the following commands should answer your question. # env | grep ^CONFIG_PROTECT # find /etc/env.d | xargs grep

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 October 2006 15:53, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED': > But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping > make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? Gentoo provides defaults

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:26:37 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > localhost heathen # emerge --info | grep CONFIG > CONFIG_PROTECT="" You've told portage to overwrite any config files in /etc, or anywhere else, whenever you update a package. dispatch-conf certainly isn't to blame, the damage is sel

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
Please see my reply to Neil re this thread > Once you marked some directories from protection, > emerge will, instead of > using the file from a package, install the file from > a package > as ._cfg- (or somesuch). Tools like > dispatch-conf and > etc-update are then used to merge your file

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 October 2006 22:26, maxim wexler wrote: > localhost heathen # grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf > CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" WHY did you set that?? Remove it! Read the output of: # emerge --help --config -- Bo Andresen pgp3pkcTQCinJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED?

2006-10-16 Thread maxim wexler
> If you really have an empty CONFIG_PROTECT, > dispatch-conf didn't touch > this file, it was replaced during emerge. You must > fix this before > emerging anything else or you will overwrite more > config files. > > What do > emerge --info | grep CONFIG > and > grep CONFIG /etc/make.conf > show

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:34, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED': > One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without > telling me or leaving any record was > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:34:10 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without > telling me or leaving any record was > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko > failed to load. > localhost heathen # portageq config_protect > If you really have a

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread maxim wexler
One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without telling me or leaving any record was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko failed to load. > What is the output of: > > # portageq config_protect > > and > > # portageq config_protect_mask > localhost heathen # portageq config_