On Sunday 24 July 2005 15:25, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 18:40 -0500, Brian D. Harring wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:20:19AM +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: > > > Apropos config-files: what about config-files that are provided by > > > the old-version of an ebuild but have been moved or removed by the > > > new version? etc-update doesn't know about them. So /etc/ will be > > > full of useless config-files after some time. > > > > Vapier had suggested yanking (on unmerge, not replacement) any > > config_protected file that has the same md5/mtime as what it was > > originally merged with. > > > > This would cause issues for nvidia-kernel though I'd think, although > > their solution isn't exactly optimal (no better solution atm either > > though). > > Not sure I'm on speed with why that would be bad for nvidia-kernel?
If necessary a "touch /etc/myconfigfile" in pkg_postinst would force that the config file stays there. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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