On 2024.06.15 02:38, Vitaliy Perekhovy wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 04:54:09PM -0400, Jack wrote:
> I don't have any such directory. What package does it belong to,
or is
> it a config setting for portage or another package?
Yes, it is a configuration of portage itself. There is an env variable
CONFIG_PROTECT that contains a list of directories that portage will
protect from automatic modification. Please check this article:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CONFIG_PROTECT
You can query that variable by `portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT'.
/etc is the first entry in my CONFIG_PROTECT, but I still have no
config-archive under /etc. I think the folders listed in that variable
are treated specially by portage in terms of not silently replacing
config files, but doesn't control save/archive.
A bit of searching found the wiki page for dispatch-conf, which
includes:
Before running dispatch-conf for the first time, the settings in
/etc/dispatch-conf.conf should be edited, and the archive directory
specified in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf will need to be created
(/etc/config-archive by default).
So it appears that directory may be specific to that tool, and not
directly related to portage.
