Bug 178628 – need a way to hook into post etc-update

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description SpanKY 2007-05-15 12:33:02 UTC]

we have some scripts that may need to be run after etc-update is executed ...

for example, any files installed into /etc/modules.d/ or /etc/modprobe.d/ should have `update-modules` run afterwards

or after /etc/ca-certificates.conf is updated, update-ca-certificates should be executed

[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-05-15 13:08:36 UTC]

I assume you want this for all config file managers, not just etc-update, right?

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2007-05-15 14:17:42 UTC]

the immediate need was for etc-update, but if you want to make it extensible and make it agnostic of the utility, that's fine

[Comment 3 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-05-15 14:34:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> the immediate need was for etc-update, but if you want to make it extensible
> and make it agnostic of the utility, that's fine
> 

A daemon using inotify maybe?

[Comment 4 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-05-15 14:35:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> A daemon using inotify maybe?
> 

Would have the benefit of catching changes done outside of etc-update too. Then it could optionally have a dbus based API to ask for confirmation from the user on running the tool.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2007-05-15 14:57:54 UTC]

ugh, i see that as a death spiral

[Comment 6 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2007-05-15 14:59:44 UTC]

Petteri: Your thinking wayyyy to high level on this one right now. The tool we need is much lower then that. Granted, if you wanted something like this, I'm sure we could make some hooks in there to call some bash D-Bus bindings to notify stuff like gnome-system-tools/backends.

vapier: This is exactly what we need. Great idea.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2012-03-11 03:17:23 UTC]

i think for most things now, people have converted to .d dirs so fragments can be installed without having to generate a single config file.  certainly for the modules/modprobe stuff, that's what we do.