Bug 26807

Summary:	etc-update shouldn't try to upgrade certain files
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Krzysztof Luks <kluks>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	azarah, dominik, flash3001, zmedico
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	20223
Bug Blocks:

Description Krzysztof Luks 2003-08-17 07:59:45 UTC

Etc-update shouldn't try to upgrade certain files like:
/etc/groups, /etc/fstab, /etc/issue
and similar. These files are most certainly edited by users (admins) and listing
them as update pending by etc-update is pointless.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-08-17 11:38:53 UTC

sometimes we make additions to /etc/group and /etc/passwd that should be 
merged into systems

Comment 2 mark lybarger 2003-11-13 07:32:57 UTC

it would be nice if etc-update would look to see if a file in /etc has been changed after it was installed by an emerge.  if the file was not modified by the user, then it's safe to use the new file. or at least have an option to "apply all updates to non-user modified files" an emerge of xfree or kde or other packages puts lots of new files into /etc which makes an etc-update very error prone. _most_ of these files are not touched ever by the user, but those that are could be held for manual review.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2005-07-29 15:38:39 UTC

Comment #2 seems to have the spirit of Bug 8423 (nuke untouched files).

Otherwise, I don't see why this bug is still open because etc-update should at
least *inform* the user whenever a packages have collisions with
CONFIG_PROTECT'ed files.

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2005-07-31 13:51:20 UTC

Maybe etc-update could have a config file that allows the user to specify a list
of CONFIG_PROTECTED'ed files for which collisions don't matter (/etc/issue,
/etc/conf.d/hostname, etc...).  Then etc-update could simply remove the updates
that occur in the "ignore list" with no need to prompt the user.

Comment 5 Dominik Kozaczko 2006-01-24 05:22:09 UTC

/etc/conf.d/hostname should really be protected. This is SO annoying having to update 16 boxes and on each I must search for that only file before entering "-5".

Comment 6 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-19 04:18:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114713 ***