El mar, 15-05-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: > El mar, 15-05-2012 a las 08:31 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: > > On 05/15/2012 04:15 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I recently installed Gentoo on my uncle's laptop and he was a bit > > > annoyed about needing to run "dispatch-conf" and merge a lot of changes > > > on files nobody ever touched. > > > > > > Looking to /etc/dispatch-conf.conf I noticed options to improve this > > > situation exist, but they are disabled by default. I would want to > > > confirm if they are safe enough or could cause problems. Options are: > > > > > > # Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments > > > # (yes or no) > > > replace-wscomments=no > > > > > > # Automerge files that the user hasn't modified > > > # (yes or no) > > > replace-unmodified=no > > > > > > Looks really surprising to me that "replace-wscomments" is not enabled > > > by default as merging that changes shouldn't hurt at all. About > > > "replace-unmodified", if it works as intended, it should also be safer > > > to get it enabled by default as would prevent breakage if people forgets > > > to run dispatch-conf, reboot and, for example, sees some init.d script > > > fail to start. > > > > > > Thanks a lot for the info > > > > FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified is what you really want. We could > > probably enable it by default, but we should ask for comment on the > > gentoo-dev mailing list before doing that. > > Didn't know about that option, thanks for pointing it :D > > About trying to enable it by default, I think would make sense per > previous exposed reasons (and I am sure there are more examples that > could show that behavior is better than keeping obsolete config files by > default) >
Just noticed the problem of current behavior after updating my chroot to generate emul packages and needing to review 40 files with dispatch-conf, all of them never touched and all of them needing to be updated to new version
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