From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7988 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Jan 2003 10:28:59 -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 15619 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2003 10:28:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Toby Dickenson Reply-To: tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=), gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:26:36 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: gentoo-user@gentoo.org References: <33052.192.168.0.8.1041817268.squirrel@webmail.codewordt.co.uk> <841y3qloyq.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: <841y3qloyq.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301061026.36076.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo? X-Archives-Salt: b445f9b8-2150-488f-84d5-6910dbfe2cf0 X-Archives-Hash: b20c9c32a8774d85a17b58d782d34db2 On Monday 06 January 2003 7:25 am, Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: > But even in the cfengine case, it would be useful to stash the > original versions of config files somewhere such that a diff between > A and C could be requested. > > What do people think? My /etc is full of manually created *.original files, so I can diff my ma= nual=20 edits against a portage (or rpm) original. It would be really nice for=20 portage to automatically maintain these in /etc/portage-original (or=20 wherever) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list