| Summary: | Add optional feature to improve CONFIG_PROTECT and minimize etc-updates | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | William Totten <biell> |
| Component: | Enhancement/Feature Requests | Assignee: | Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 2.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
What I would like to see is a new "FEATURES" item which would allow you to have files normally protected by CONFIG_PROTECT to be automatically updated if they have not been changed from their default. For example, I think /etc/syslog.conf is fine from the factory, and if it changes that will probably be fine too. This diff (modified to remove spaces to show the changes I propose) would update to this behavior in the current stable release of portage using a "FEATURES" keyword "smart_config_protect": *** /tmp/portage.py Mon Jul 21 00:21:38 2003 --- portage.py Mon Jul 21 00:23:23 2003 *************** *** 4628,4633 **** --- 4628,4637 ---- os.utime(mydest,(thismtime,thismtime)) zing="---" moveme=0 + elif cycled and ("smart_config_protect" in features): + #mymd5!=destmd5 and we've cycled, but smart_config is on; move mysrc + moveme=1 + cfgfiledict[myrealdest]=[mymd5] elif cycled: #mymd5!=destmd5 and we've cycled; move mysrc into place as a ._cfg file moveme=1 If you like it, but would like a full diff to fully understand: http://drumlin.thehutt.org/portage/portage.py-diff I know people might think this is drastic, but think about it. Most of us only update 1-2 dozen /etc/files. I batch up my etc-update's and generally don't get to them until there are well over 50 files to update. Now, I know that I could get rid of many of them by masking the directories, but I think this is fundamentally better. I also think it solves a large portion of the etc-update question brought up in the Eurpoean conference a couple weeks ago. I am actually running with this, and my life is easier. Thanks for your time, and your valued work on the portage system thus far.