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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:10:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050831101029.1701ae2c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508301719.40231.sean@systura.com>

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:40 -0400, Sean Higgins wrote:

> > It exists as an option with dispatch-conf, as do options to
> > automatically replace files if the only differences are whitespace
> > and comments.
> 
> But, it does not automatically do an update if the original file has
> not changed.  That would be a cool feature.  How often are files
> changed, for example in /etc/init.d, but you have not changed that
> file?  I would love the option to automatically update any
> configuration file that I did not change from the original install.

No it does not do it automatically, that would be dangerous, You have to
enable the option first in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf

# Automerge files that the user hasn't modified
# (yes or no)
replace-unmodified=yes


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Guns don't kill people--it's those little pieces of lead.

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31  9:17 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
2005-08-30 17:22     ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-30 21:19       ` Sean Higgins
2005-08-31  9:10         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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