From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5726 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Sep 2003 19:48:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6331 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 19:48:56 -0000 Message-ID: <3F6617A1.70807@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:48:49 -0400 From: Stewart Honsberger Organization: Gentoo Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: camio@yahoo.com CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200309062021.26817.puggy@bobspants.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: 9bb69676-ca8b-4055-9a3e-e894263726a7 X-Archives-Hash: 92be0fc7cba2a3c2b4c718fed48327c7 David Sankel wrote: > I was afraid that it wouldn't be clear what I meant by this. I am not > suggesting that all files could be automatically overwritten, only files > that were not modified from the default by the user. For example the > file: > > /etc/X11/chooser.sh > > was never changed by a given user on a given system. It is the default for > the version they have. When a revision to the default is discovered, the > system will flag that file as being one that the user hasn't specialized. > In etc-update, there could be an option to update all flagged files > automatically. Does that make more sense? I submit that this is a good idea - if the MD5 hash of a particular file hasn't changed, allow the user the option (I must emphasize _option_) of having etc-update automatically overwrite the file with the changes; with the usual disclaimer about how this could/would/will affect the functionality in a possibly unpredictable mannar and may cause more harm than good, etc. I personally find it aggravating when I update a long-overdue system (which can be as little as 2 months with Gentoo's expedient updates) and having to plough through ~250 files with etc-update - atleast half of which I've never touched / couldn't care less about. Granted, there is a "-3 - update all remaining files" option, but that's still tedious. -- Stewart Honsberger http://www.snerk.org/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list