From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ifz9K-0007hk-SV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:36:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9BEPHd7016045; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:25:17 GMT Received: from dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9BEKcsP011117 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:20:39 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9BEKRP2022125 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:20:27 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this normal? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:24:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200710111345.16269.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <68b1e2610710110659q672424eai9eab28072fcce8fe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610710110659q672424eai9eab28072fcce8fe@mail.gmail.com> 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710111624.26382.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: ca4e1453-b42a-4d85-9bbb-87d2b47b060e X-Archives-Hash: 5a824769a4003648006f2e57f44531ed On Thursday 11 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/11/07, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > * man page to learn how to update config files. > > The > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22#di >spatch-conf suggests the use of dispatch-conf over etc-update. "But the most important thing is, that it keeps record of which configuration files you edited and auto-updates those that you haven't touched. After it has collected the necessary information it will most often only prompt you for intervention where it is really necessary". Thus, it seems that my etc-update is behaving like dispatch-conf, updating some files (the missing six) without notice. This sound strange. Shouldn't etc-update automerge them together with the other ones that require only trivial changes? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list