On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> wrote: > > There can not be any manual merges after an SW update here. > > I started to look at INSTALL_MASK, what if I set INSTALL_MASK > to point to all conf files I want to manage myself. > Then /etc/inittab etc. will not be touched when updating init >
This sounds like overkill. If you've already installed a custom /etc/inittab, then when you emerge init, it won't overwrite your inittab even if you don't change anything in your portage config. emerge won't touch any files in /etc unless they don't already exist. So, just dump all your canned config files into etc and then install whatever you want, and your config files will be intact. You'll have a bunch of renamed config files that emerge will bug you about, but you can either just delete those or ignore them. -- Rich
