[gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[Joe Menola]

90% of the time I've broken a Gentoo install has involved etc-update and 
admittedly myself doing something stupid.
I've since developed the habit of tarring the /etc directory before running 
update. 
So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which 
creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which 
overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus giving us 
goofs a unlimited amount of chances to get it right.

Any thoughts?

-jm
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Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[Kai Ole Schultz]

On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote :
> So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which
> creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.

Why not use dispatch-conf instead?

HTH
k.o.schultz
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Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[Alex Schuster]

Joe writes:

> So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
> which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
> Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which
> overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus giving
> us goofs a unlimited amount of chances to get it right.

> Any thoughts?

Try dispatch-conf instead of etc-update. When use_rcs ist set to yes  
in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf, and rcs is emerged, you get a backup of  
each file.

        Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[Joe Menola]

On Saturday August 27 2005 11:57 am, Kai Ole Schultz wrote:
> On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote :
> > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
> > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
>
> Why not use dispatch-conf instead?
>
First I've heard of it, thanks (you and Alex) I'll check it out.

For other curious folk... 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=184107&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=dispatchconf

-jm
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[gentoo-user] Re: Proposed option for etc-update

[Alvin A ONeal Jr]

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ditch etc-update, dispatch-conf has backup features built in
emerge gentoolkit
dispatch-conf

and while you're at it
emerge eix
eix some-package

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Proposed option for etc-update

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:46:53 -0400, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote:

> ditch etc-update, dispatch-conf has backup features built in
> emerge gentoolkit
> dispatch-conf

dispatch-conf is not in gentoolkit, it is part or portage.

# qpkg -f `which dispatch-conf `
sys-apps/portage

> and while you're at it
> emerge eix
> eix some-package

Absolutely, I wouldn't be without eix.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[A. Khattri]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote:

> Why not use dispatch-conf instead?

Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to
etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features
added to it. That said, I would rather use it (and be very very careful)
rather than put up with dispatch-conf.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Monday 29 August 2005 01:59 am, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote:
> > Why not use dispatch-conf instead?
>
> Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to
> etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features
> added to it. That said, I would rather use it (and be very very careful)
> rather than put up with dispatch-conf.
>
I use cfg-update and have been happy with it for a while.

Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[Fernando Canizo]

El 27/ago/2005 a las 14:00 -0300, Alex me decía:
> Joe writes:
> 
> > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
> > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
> > Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which
> > overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus giving
> > us goofs a unlimited amount of chances to get it right.
> 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Try dispatch-conf instead of etc-update. When use_rcs ist set to yes  
> in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf, and rcs is emerged, you get a backup of  
> each file.

Or he can set a subversion repository i he, like Khattri, doesn't like
dispatch-conf.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

[George Garvey]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:44:24AM -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
> So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which 
> creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.

   Perhaps. But, I hope you don't find out the unpleasant way what it
is not to backup your file systems.
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