From: "Oliver Rutherfurd" <fruhstuck@rutherfurd.net>
To: "Brian Hall" <brihall@pcisys.net>,
"Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de>
Cc: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>, <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:33:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01d001c2b8bd$af169e20$21c0a8c0@appdevlaptop001> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030110152525.GA2641@pcisys.net
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Hall" <brihall@pcisys.net>
> To: "Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de>
> Cc: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>; <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with
gentoo?
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:10:57PM +0100, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> > Bengt Gorden <bengan@sunet.se> writes:
> >
> > > Kai Großjohann wrote:
> > >
> > > I maintain a RCS-repository for all the changed files in /etc. It
> > > works well for me.
> >
> > Great. I would really appreciate something with that effect to be
> > the default, though.
>
> Seconded!
Hi,
I've written an equivalent to "etc-update" which creates backups of the
config files before replacing them. Don't know how this compares to keeping
an RCS repository, but I figured I'd mention it in case there was any
interest.
It can be found here:
http://www.rutherfurd.net/gentoo/cfghelper/
-Ollie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-10 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-06 1:41 [gentoo-dev] etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo? Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-01-06 2:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Brian Jackson
2003-01-06 5:24 ` Viktor Lakics
2003-01-06 6:03 ` Brian Jackson
2003-01-06 10:49 ` Jeremy Wohl
2003-01-06 6:40 ` Joseph Carter
2003-01-06 7:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-06 10:26 ` Toby Dickenson
2003-01-06 13:15 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2003-01-06 13:02 ` Bengt Gorden
2003-01-10 11:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-10 15:25 ` Brian Hall
2003-01-10 15:33 ` Oliver Rutherfurd [this message]
2003-01-06 15:20 ` Joseph Carter
2003-01-06 7:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Vermeulen
[not found] ` <200301060054.29991.absinthe@pobox.com>
2003-01-10 22:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kai Großjohann
2003-01-10 23:05 ` William Kenworthy
2003-01-11 1:48 ` Joseph Carter
2003-01-11 10:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-11 15:19 ` [gentoo-dev] Diff alternatives for etc-update (WAS: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?) Dylan Carlson
[not found] ` <84hecfmmpb.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2003-01-11 21:29 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Diff alternatives for etc-update Dylan Carlson
2003-01-11 21:44 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-01-11 23:59 ` Dylan Carlson
2003-01-13 22:39 ` [gentoo-dev] Diff alternatives for etc-update (WAS: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?) Peter Ruskin
2003-01-13 22:50 ` Dylan Carlson
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