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

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Mike Williams posted <200408101156.17481.mike@gaima.co.uk>, excerpted
below,  on Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:56:16 +0100:

> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43, Joerg Hoh wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Right.. Unfortunately, when I try to use it, I get file move errors, as if
it's attempting to hard-link across partitions.  I like the idea.. if it
worked!  (I haven't bug-checked this, as I expected it was designed that
way and therefore known behavior.  I just went back to etc-update, which
/still/ doesn't page right with the default config due to a parse error
because it wants quotes.  See bug.. 56785.. still marked new nearly a
month later, and even tho etc-update is documented core portage
functionality, even with a proposed patch in the form of an improved
sed command posted to the bug.)

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