[gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? I run BOINC on my machines, and /etc/init.d/boinc includes far too long a timeout on start-stop-daemon when stopping the program. The minimum time it will wait is 60s, which is a long time when you're waiting. On this ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? I'm not sure what order things are sourced, but you could try putting your edited stop() function in /etc/conf.d/boinc Regards, Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 11:28:21 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > > I run BOINC on my machines, and /etc/init.d/boinc includes far too long a > timeout on start-stop-daemon when stopping the program. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-14 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >> > It does this by default when you select to 'Extract here'. For example, the > archive foo.zip will be extracted into a new directory called foo/ and all > compressed files in foo.zip will be extracted into f

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 12:01:02 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > I am not familiar with the BOINC application. Is the program taking a long > time to stop because it is completing whatever calculation it was processing > and then have to store/upload the result and its current status befo

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 14:18:51 Greenwich Mean Time Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 11:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > > In this case the init script is using a custom variable for the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 16:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That's v helpful, Michael. Thanks. > > Do you mind if I quote you in the bug report I send in? > Nope, go ahead.

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 11:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > In this case the init script is using a custom variable for the timeout, and setting that variable unconditionally: stop() { local stop_timeout="SIGT

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 07:06:16AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Michael wrote: > > On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > >> > > It does this by default when you select to 'Extract here'. For example, > > the > > archive foo.zip will be extracted into a new directory calle