From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EA9mS-0008WG-ND for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:20:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UHHH3k008935; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:17:17 GMT Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UHDXex024256 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:13:36 GMT Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050830171540.FBGP23002.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:15:40 +0100 Received: from winn.cable.ntl.com ([82.5.33.210]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050830171540.GCIC13593.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@winn.cable.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:15:40 +0100 From: Tony Davison Organization: none 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <43146614.6000002@nethere.com> <43147135.9010307@planet.nl> <1125417989.12459.43.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1125417989.12459.43.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508301815.38007.tony.davison2@ntlworld.com> X-Archives-Salt: 529508df-8044-4ddc-ad56-8d39f64c4fae X-Archives-Hash: 3f77cd8b02484d1fb0961f5f72ef4373 On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:06, Eric Crossman wrote: > 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 -- Tony Davison tony.davison2@ntlworld.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list