Re: Sound

Neil Bothwick wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:48:34 -0700, Mike S wrote:
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>>ok I have many questions this time.  I set this variable before but for 
>>get where it was.  There is something that emerge can to to 
>>automatically write over existing configuration files.  And when I
>>first installed gentoo I set it to do that, not knowing how annoying it
>>could be.  Now I hope someone can help me in changing that back, as
>>when I ran emerge world a lot of settings were deleted, some of which
>>have been easy to change, and some not.
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>The variable is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, set in /etc/make.conf. It sound
>slike you set it to "/etc", which is a dangerous thing to do, especially
>when you emerge a baselayout update and your fstab and passwd files get
>overwritten. Comment out the setting in make.conf, or set it to contain
>only directories where you know it is safe for emerge to overwrite files.
>I have it set to "/etc/init.d".
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well I checked the /etc/make.conf file, and yes you were right (almost)  
I am not sure what the difference is, but I am sure that I will find out 
sooner or later, instead of CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK variable set to 
something I had CONFIG_PROTECT="-*".  So for the time being I just 
commented that line out, and will maybe change it once I learn more 
about it.

I will investigate the difference between CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK and 
CONFIG_PROTECT and see what the difference is (if any), or if they are 
merely the same variable with different names, which I have noticed on 
some distributions happens because of multiple developers not all 
keeping up to speed with each other.  Though from what I have see so far 
gentoo is one of the more professional distributions and that will 
probably not be the case.

Thanks Neil,
--Mike S
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