Bug 114713 – Adding a watch list to etc-update to simplify its usage

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Alessandro Di Marco 2005-12-07 02:44:43 UTC]

With this patch you can list configuration files that are important to you in a
special file called watch list. Upon execution, etc-update will now first check
wether the file to update is listed in the watch list and will behave
accordingly (highlights the corresponding filenames and let the user choose
wether to perform the update or not independently from other, not important, files.)

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Alessandro Di Marco 2005-12-07 02:45:58 UTC]

Created attachment 74215 [details, diff]
patch

[Comment 2 Alessandro Di Marco 2005-12-07 02:46:38 UTC]

Created attachment 74216 [details]
watch list file example

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2006-07-19 04:18:38 UTC]

*** Bug 26807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2006-07-19 04:43:59 UTC]

This patch was a bit too intrusive for me and also conflicted with a few other changes I made recently, but I've added something that should do more or less the same (not auto-processing any files that match a pattern in /etc/etc-update.special) in r3936.

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2006-07-19 14:13:44 UTC]

I've added one more patch in r3953 to make user_special() return 1 if none of the patterns in /etc/etc-update.special are matched.

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2006-07-20 14:05:16 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.1_pre3-r2.