[Solved] Preventing openrc "fixing" /etc/init.d/net.* files

[haven]

Hi All,

I've taken a look and cant' find this covered anywhere so apologies if it already has been.

Whenever the openrc package is updated it replaces any custom /etc/init.d/net.* files with symlinks to net.lo.

Given I have some net devices that I do not want to provide net as a service I keep having to remove these symlinks and copy net.lo back in place and repeat my edits.

What is the best way to prevent openrc from replacing these files automatically ? (I've tried CONFIG_PROTECT in /etc/make.conf and that has not helped unfortunately)

Thanks.

[Genone]

Two possible workarounds:
- if /etc is on a ext[234] filesystem use chattr +i to make the files immutable so no process can modify/delete them anymore, including root, without explicitly resetting the flag first. At the moment the openrc ebuild ignores errors when trying to replace the files, so this should work, but in the future the ebuild might check for errors and abort the merge process.
- when the openrc ebuild replaces the files with links it creates a backup first (see elog messages), so a simple post_pkg_preinst hook in /etc/portage/bashrc could restore them

[Christian99]

what about "/etc/rc.conf"? Something like

[haven]

Thanks Guys,

I'll give Christian99's option a go and see how well that works on a reboot.

Regards

[haven]

That worked a treat thanks. I'll update this to solved.