From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L175Y-00041Q-KB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:24:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF825E01BA; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [208.79.16.96]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB1EE01BA for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-71-171-110-105.clppva.fios.verizon.net [71.171.110.105]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mAEMOOeP032731 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:26 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mAEMOL7I025840 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:24 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.13.7/Submit) id mAEMOLot025839; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:21 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18717.64149.529841.554937@ccs.covici.com> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:21 -0500 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates In-Reply-To: <491DF133.20408@gmail.com> References: <87skpu2uda.fsf@newsguy.com> <491DF133.20408@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 2412ffd5-b603-416a-b20e-6c4d1d886fd0 X-Archives-Hash: f2a741c4c741dc7a644ddcdc2a8d6733 on Friday 11/14/2008 Dale(rdalek1967@gmail.com) wrote > Harry Putnam wrote: > > I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease > > the update of etc files following updates. > > > > Can anyone say what tools are currently available. > > > > > > > > > > dispatch-conf works. May want to try them all and pick the one you > like. I like etc-update as far as the update process. I like this one > because it keeps backups of the old config files. An eix on both dispatch-conf and etc-update yield no matches -- where can they be found? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com