From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27575 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Sep 2003 18:11:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11313 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2003 18:11:08 -0000 From: John Mylchreest To: Alexander Gretencord Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200309171909.53290.arutha@gmx.de> References: <200309171909.53290.arutha@gmx.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-QAhv+IE5UTeLv+XboddQ" Message-Id: <1063822266.15150.5.camel@johnm.willow.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:11:06 +0100 Sender: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions.. X-Archives-Salt: 9728d1d0-16fe-417d-966d-d6806faf61c4 X-Archives-Hash: d9dbec63f38242b94d202bc785f64c4b --=-QAhv+IE5UTeLv+XboddQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There is work being done on this area quite actively I believe. one addition is that things will be a lot more intuitive, and automerge as much as possible. for example if the md5 sum of a file is the same as the original one installed, it will automerge. check out dispatch-conf for a little more insight. I hope this clears some things up - John On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:09, Alexander Gretencord wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 17:02, Stroller wrote: > > On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > > brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@charter.net] wrote: > > >> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your > > >> system will break. >=20 > No it doesn't break, it just breaks if you foolishly hit "just overwrite = all=20 > files with the new version".=20 >=20 > > > Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and > > > making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp > > > /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; nano -w /etc/fstab). > > I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was changed, were you to file > > it as a bug. I'm cross posting to gentoo-dev to see what they think. >=20 > I wouldn't be if it wouldn't. I would really like this to be consistent i= n=20 > gentoo. Syslog-ng has a syslog-ng.sample file, postfix has many sample fi= les,=20 > many other packages don't and you got to use etc-update. Well sometimes I= =20 > really welcome etc-update and config file merging and on other occasions = it=20 > just sucks and is a pain in the ass. Difficult decision I'd say. >=20 >=20 > Alex >=20 >=20 > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list --=20 John Mylchreest. Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org Public Key: gpg --recv-keys 0xEAB9E721 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xEAB9E721 Key fingerprint: 0670 E5E4 F461 806B 860A 2245 A40E 72EB EAB9 E721 --=-QAhv+IE5UTeLv+XboddQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/aKO6pA5y6+q55yERArPjAKCNBQdBJ6cmXOsyBP1t+B4dD6gZPgCaA4Xy QuPPacV/9bi6OvRkTGbz/VE= =YPLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-QAhv+IE5UTeLv+XboddQ--