Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

[Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 15 November 2008 11:04:23 Justin wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
> > Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease
> >> the update of etc files following updates.
> >>
> >> Can anyone say what tools are currently available.
> >
> > dispatch-conf works.  May want to try them all and pick the one you
> > like.  I like etc-update as far as the update process.  I like this one
> > because it keeps backups of the old config files.
> >
> > It's like the cereal aisle, your choice.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
>
> A cool thing with dispatch-conf:
>
> emerge colordiff and change in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf the diff="diff
> ..." to diff="colordiff...". You also can change the mergening command
> to anything you like more e.g. gui merging tools
Thanks for that tip :). Really cool.
-- 
Markos Chandras