If that works and I were to use chattr +i it might be useful to make a list of what's now immuteable so later adjustments could be made when appropriate.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:28:01PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:26 AM Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > > > > > Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved, > > > I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain > > > files? My latest emerge world wanted to "update"... > > > > > > 1) /etc/hosts (1) > > > 2) /etc/inittab (1) > > > 3) /etc/mtab (1) > > > 4) /etc/conf.d/consolefont (1) > > > 5) /etc/conf.d/hwclock (1) > > > 6) /etc/default/grub (1) > > > 7) /etc/ssh/sshd_config (1) > > > > > > ...hosts is critical for networking. consolefont allows me tp use the > > > true text console with a readable font, etc, etc. I have my reasons > > > for making certain settings, and keeping them that way. > > > > > In my experience with all distros I go outside the distro for this > > sort of issue. Put a copy somewhere, white a little script that > > does a diff on the files you feel are important enough and run > > a cron job hourly that looks for any differences. > > Isn’t that exactly what etc-update does? IIRC (my last Gentoo update was a > few months ago), I select one of the files, and it lets me view a diff in > vim (configurable) of my old version and the new one from the update. Then I > can either merge the two files right in vim, or elect to keep the new or old > file entirely. > >
