From: Tony Davison <tony.davison2@ntlworld.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:15:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508301815.38007.tony.davison2@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125417989.12459.43.camel@localhost>
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:06, Eric Crossman wrote:
<much snippery>
> While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other
> package systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I
> only have to make choices when the "system can't figure it out". It
> seems like etc-update (and friends) should be able to take advantage
> of mtime metadata and md5 checksums to determine if I've made any
> modifications to the default config file. That way an unmodified
> default config from version N can just safely be replaced with the
> new default for version N +1. Does this functionality already exist
> with the current etc-update?
>
Check out /etc/dispatch-conf.conf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-30 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-30 13:58 [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates Jerry Turba
2005-08-30 14:23 ` Mark Knecht
2005-09-01 0:46 ` Jerry Turba
2005-09-01 3:16 ` Mark Knecht
2005-09-01 8:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-31 17:33 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2005-08-30 14:31 ` Roger Light
2005-08-30 14:46 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-30 16:06 ` Eric Crossman
2005-08-30 17:15 ` Tony Davison [this message]
2005-08-30 17:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-30 21:19 ` Sean Higgins
2005-08-31 9:10 ` Neil Bothwick
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