On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:56:16AM +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> 
> Basic premise, as I remember, is that when portage merges a new version it 
> purposely doesn't overwrite files CONFIG_PROTECT'd, but really it should look 
> for the file in /var/db/pkg, check the md5sums, and if the same overwrite it.

the problem is the large number of files CONFIG_PROTECT'd ... 

> > Another extension would be versioning of configuration files via cvs/rcs,
> > subversion or arch. But I had to do some more work on that ...
> 
> dispatch-conf does basic backing up before overwriting.

That seems to be the right thing (according to the manpage), but I haven't
heard of it yet. The documentation mentions only etc-update. Does
dispatch-conf also handles the update of unchanged configs?

Joerg

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