Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extension of etc-update

[Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>]

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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43, Joerg Hoh wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm unhappy with the etc-update script. In my eyes it lacks at least one
> necessary feature:
>
> Detection of unmodified config-files

I think this should be a feature of portage, and I believe it's been discussed 
before.

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.

> 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.

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Mike Williams
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