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From: Tony Davison <tony.davison2@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:15:37 +0100
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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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