Hi,<br>
<br>
My suggestion for portage is: when you do an &quot;emerge -vuD world&quot;, you
have to work at the end of the emerging with the /etc config files and
see the differences to know if you want to overwrite file by file or
not.<br>
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Well, what I want is to have a backup of all them (one backup, and only
one). For that goal, it can be used a new option in make.conf like
&quot;backup_etc_files=yes&quot; if you want to turn this on.<br>
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By turning this on, an &quot;emerge -vuD world&quot; can be done in one shot, I
mean, you can do an emerge -vuD world, and all the files could be
replaced (overwrited) by the new ones (etc-update), but you'll be able
to access to your backups if anything is wrong, so you don't have to go
file by file looking at the differences between them.<br>
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I suggest to name them &quot;whatever.conf&quot; (our original file) ==&gt; &quot;whatever.conf.backup&quot; (our backuped file)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Rafael Fernández López.<br>