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From: Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update
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060626 Sean wrote:
> What is the best way to handle the files
> that etc-update states needs to be updated?
You provoked a bit of a debate (smile), but in case it's still not clear,
I've long used Etc-update with Gvim as defined in /etc/etc-update.conf :
# pager for use with diff commands (see NOTE_2)
# pager="less"
pager=""
# diff_command="vim -d %file1 %file2"
# diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2"
# using_editor=0
diff_command="gvim -d %file1 %file2"
using_editor=1
# vim-users: don't use vimdiff for merging (see NOTE_1)
merge_command="sdiff -s -o %merged %orig %new"
Even if you're not normally a Vim user, this shows the diffs very clearly
& allows you to copy your personal changes from old to new versions.
Generally, always go through all the etc-updates & keep back-ups of /etc .
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