From: Stroller <root@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions..
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:02:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F4DE20B2-E91F-11D7-9EE5-000A95795F3E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OLEMJKKJBJMMNIPIEKLLGENIDBAA.Gwendolyn.van.der.Linden@technolution.nl>
On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:
> brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@charter.net] wrote:
>
>> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
>> system will break.
>
> Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
> making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
> /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; nano -w /etc/fstab).
I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was changed, were you to file
it as a bug. I'm cross posting to gentoo-dev to see what they think.
Stroller.
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2003-09-17 15:02 ` Stroller [this message]
2003-09-17 15:46 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions Chris Gianelloni
2003-09-17 17:09 ` Alexander Gretencord
2003-09-17 18:11 ` John Mylchreest
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