67622 – need variable for protecting directories from writing to (similar to config_protect)

Bug 67622 - need variable for protecting directories from writing to (similar to config_protect)

Summary: need variable for protecting directories from writing to (similar to config_p...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55803

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-10-14 23:53 UTC by Tobias Sager
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description Tobias Sager 2004-10-14 23:53:18 UTC

CONFIG_PROTECT protects files in a directory from overwriting, I now
request an option for protecting directories from writing at all.

You could use this to protect my htdocs directory for example. An apache
update would then not write the sample web page files into my live web server
data directory. (see bug 55803)

Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-15 00:17:16 UTC

Bouncing back to apache as it should be a USE flag to install the sample pages or they should be installed somewhere else.

There isn't much chance at getting features added to portage when they only make sense to be used with one or two packages, especially if the package is able to take care of the problem itself.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55803 ***