[gentoo-dev] mergemaster in portage

[gentoo-dev] mergemaster in portage

[Kai Zimmermann]

Hi,

does anything exist in portage equal to the FreeBSD mergemaster (merging new configuration files to the old ones)? 

I wrote a script that works fine for me but maybe there is a more general solution?

kai


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Re: [gentoo-dev] mergemaster in portage

[Mart Raudsepp]

Kai Zimmermann kirjutas N, 20.11.2003 kell 00:03:
> Hi,
> 
> does anything exist in portage equal to the FreeBSD mergemaster (merging new configuration files to the old ones)? 
> 
> I wrote a script that works fine for me but maybe there is a more general solution?
> 
> kai

Try etc-update
Also this post doesn't belong to gentoo-dev, rather to gentoo-user.

Mart Raudsepp


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Re: [gentoo-dev] mergemaster in portage

[Markus Nigbur]

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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:03:45 +0100
Kai Zimmermann <zimmermann79@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> does anything exist in portage equal to the FreeBSD mergemaster
> (merging new configuration files to the old ones)? 
> 
> I wrote a script that works fine for me but maybe there is a more
> general solution?

/usr/sbin/etc-update is doing exactly the task you want.

-- Markus

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Re: [gentoo-dev] mergemaster in portage

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:03:45PM +0100, Kai Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anything exist in portage equal to the FreeBSD mergemaster
> (merging new configuration files to the old ones)? 
> 
> I wrote a script that works fine for me but maybe there is a more
> general solution?

And before you point it out: Yes, etc-update is a bit of a pain to use
(it was much worse before:). We are working on fixing the usability issues
with it.

Kind regards,

Karl T

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