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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extension of etc-update
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:46:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408101346.30311.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040810112318.GA1912@hydra.joerghoh.de>

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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 13:23, Joerg Hoh wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it even has a configuration file that determines it's behaviour. It is a 
timesaver compared to etc-update. It also does auto-merges.

Paul

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-10 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-10 10:43 [gentoo-dev] RFC: extension of etc-update Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 10:48 ` Guy Martin
2004-08-10 10:56 ` Mike Williams
2004-08-10 11:23   ` Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 11:46     ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
     [not found]     ` <d25519e90408100452548d6501@mail.gmail.com>
2004-08-10 12:04       ` Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 12:11         ` Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11 20:55           ` [gentoo-dev] small dispatch-conf patch, WAS: " Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11 21:03             ` Paul de Vrieze
     [not found]               ` <d25519e9040811143258d8d8ef@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <200408112338.13758.pauldv@gentoo.org>
2004-08-12  7:35                   ` Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11  2:51         ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: " Donnie Berkholz
2004-08-11 10:35   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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