Setting a component to be disabled initially results in the component being in an overridden state

Did you revert the feature in the db, or was this on a fresh install of the feature to a new site? Unfortunately, once you start editing the export file by hand there isn't much Features can do to help you. Features uses a general API that modules like Context follow, so there is no way Features can make specific exceptions to specific fields for specific modules.

I'm setting this on D6.

> Unfortunately, once you start editing the export file by hand there isn't much Features can do to help you.

But my Context was initially disabled, and Features exported it as initially enabled! There's no other way to have its disabled status in the Feature.

Is this perhaps caused by Context not exporting the status of a context object?

Yup, that's the problem. Well, in CTools rather than Context.

In D6, this is the cause, in ctools_export_object()

  if ($schema['export']['can disable']) {
    $output .= $indent . '$' . $identifier . '->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default ' . $identifier . ' disabled initially */' . "\n";
  }

The object's status is not taken into account when that line of export code is written. I imagine the problem is the same in D7, as CTools is pretty similar on both 6 and 7.

So is there anything we can do? I'm experiencing this problem now (using D7).

(and/or should we be carrying on with this in the ctools queue, @joachim ?)

Yes, it belongs to CTools.

This should fix the false override.

Better.

Avoid PHP notices.

The 3 year old patch in #8 to export.inc does not apply to the latest ctools 7.x-1.x-dev.

Checking patch includes/export.inc...
error: while searching for:
  $output = $indent . '$' . $identifier . ' = new ' . get_class($object) . "();\n";

  if ($schema['export']['can disable']) {
    $output .= $indent . '$' . $identifier . '->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default ' . $identifier . ' disabled initially */' . "\n";
  }
  if (!empty($schema['export']['api']['current_version'])) {
    $output .= $indent . '$' . $identifier . '->api_version = ' . $schema['export']['api']['current_version'] . ";\n";

error: patch failed: includes/export.inc:902
error: includes/export.inc: patch does not apply

@Chris, Please review my attached patch that rerolled for 7.x-1.x-dev, kindly review it.

Thanks!..

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