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Bug 172637 - app-emulation/vmware-server: overwrites config file without asking
Summary: app-emulation/vmware-server: overwrites config file without asking
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Reported: 2007-03-29 05:58 UTC by Claes Mogren
Modified: 2007-03-29 07:10 UTC (History)
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Description Claes Mogren 2007-03-29 05:58:54 UTC 
When doing an "emerge vmware-server" the config file in /etc/vmware/ gets overwritten without any warning. Is there some way to get around this?

I use cpu scaling on my AMD64 and need the following lines in my /etc/vmware/config to keep the guest OS's clock correct:

host.cpukHz = 2000000
host.noTSC = TRUE
ptsc.noTSC = TRUE

How can this be handled by etc-update?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Modify /etc/vmware/config1
2. emerge vmware-server
3. Look at the overwritten /etc/vmware/config

Actual Results:  
Config file is overwritten.

Expected Results:  
It'd like that etc-update picks up this change.

(It's an ebuild issue so emerge --info should be irrelevant)
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-03-29 06:52:46 UTC 
Uhm? It's not even installed by the ebuild, it's generated when you run emerge --config or vmware-config.pl; so no, this can't be handled by CONFIG_PROTECT at all.
Comment 2 Claes Mogren 2007-03-29 07:10:47 UTC 
Pardon my ignorance, I'm sorry. Thanks Jakub!