From: Chris White <chriswhite@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:02:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609111603.17955.chriswhite@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060911232211.2cb55425@snowdrop.home>
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On Monday 11 September 2006 15:22, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> * Otherwise, try again with ``._cfg0001_name``, then ``._cfg0002_name`` and
> so on (base ten is used for the number part) until a usable filename is
> found.
For what purpose are the older cfg[number]_name files kept around? I ask
because I would anticipate the default behavior for replacing configuration
files with their pending updates to be picking the newest update. That said,
the previous versions would not serve a purpose, or is there something I
don't see?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-11 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 22:22 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection Ciaran McCreesh
2006-09-11 23:02 ` Chris White [this message]
2006-09-11 23:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-09-16 7:21 ` Brian Harring
2006-09-12 1:13 ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-09-12 0:30 ` Michael Cummings
2006-09-13 20:05 ` Peter Volkov (pva)
2006-09-12 8:19 ` Simon Stelling
2006-09-12 9:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-09-12 17:36 ` Zac Medico
2006-09-12 22:44 ` Zac Medico
2006-09-12 22:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-09-12 23:57 ` Zac Medico
2006-09-20 20:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2006-09-13 1:00 ` Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
2006-09-13 17:47 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-09-13 20:42 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2006-09-14 17:34 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-09-14 19:30 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2006-09-15 20:27 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-09-14 6:51 ` Harald van Dijk
2006-09-15 18:39 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-09-16 6:56 ` Harald van Dijk
2006-09-16 7:17 ` Brian Harring
2006-09-16 22:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-09-17 0:26 ` Brian Harring
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