From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1ynh-00015O-AK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:45:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94A09E019D; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mgw-mx09.nokia.com (smtp.nokia.com [192.100.105.134]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B248E019D for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vaebh105.NOE.Nokia.com (vaebh105.europe.nokia.com [10.160.244.31]) by mgw-mx09.nokia.com (Switch-3.2.6/Switch-3.2.6) with ESMTP id mAH7iv6b002590 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:45:34 -0600 Received: from vaebh102.NOE.Nokia.com ([10.160.244.23]) by vaebh105.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:45:30 +0200 Received: from mymachine.localnet ([10.146.1.70]) by vaebh102.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:45:30 +0200 From: Dirk Heinrichs Organization: Capgemini Deutschland GmbH To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools currently available for update of etc files after updates Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:45:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27.2; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) References: <87skpu2uda.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811162005.52405.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <87iqqn5srf.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87iqqn5srf.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1408287.MolnPEfKuX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200811170845.28702.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Nov 2008 07:45:30.0274 (UTC) FILETIME=[76CE1820:01C94888] X-Nokia-AV: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 3c2bf0ae-f9b6-4fe7-a55f-ac25d62edb7d X-Archives-Hash: 313d19aca06a38459944110ce1b98318 --nextPart1408287.MolnPEfKuX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Sonntag 16 November 2008 21:18:44 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > Dirk Heinrichs writes: > >> Or maybe just by experience in using the tool it would get handier > >> and faster.... > > > > Just doing the automatic stuff, where no user intervention is involved > > _is_ blazingly fast. How fast you are in running the diff/merge tool of > > _your_ choice is, well, up to you. > > Maybe, but as you know it defaults to xxdiff. That of course is not > to say it cannot be changed but by default the merge tool is slow and > clunky. That's true, of course. But any other config file update tool you choose wi= ll=20 be affected by the merge tool it uses. But this merge tool only comes into= =20 play when the update can't be done automatically. So to tell wether the upd= ate=20 tool as such is fast or not (compared to the others), one should leave the= =20 merge tool out of the equation. OTOH, you can always change the merge tool. I use kdiff3 (because I didn't= =20 like xxdiff either), which is also not the fastest one, but IMHO the best y= ou=20 can get. YMMV, though. > >> Using xxdiff is pretty clunky and slow I thought. I would not > >> describe it as blazingly fast. I did not, never ever, describe xxdiff as blazingly fast. I was referring t= o=20 cfg-update only. > > You were not talking about xxdiff, you wrote that cfg-update was slow. > > You seem to imply that cfg-update is independent of a diff tool. It > does not appear to be able to merge anything on its own. Yes, it is. As long as no conflicts arise. That's when the merge tool comes= =20 in. > So to speak of cfg-update minus a diff tool as fast/slow seems a > little off the mark. s/diff/merge/ > I'm curious about the backup setup. Have you had occasion to go > back into the database to pull out an old config? No, not yet. Bye... Dirk =2D-=20 Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinrichs@capgemini.com Wanheimerstra=DFe 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 D=FCsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: wwwkeys.pgp.net --nextPart1408287.MolnPEfKuX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJISEY8NVtnsLkZ7sRAtq7AJ9EVc7P8Qm+IJmrWZMrRJpV4EQ8fACfRSk/ BTyJU1dZzGBUhomYTFKqdNw= =vCAQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1408287.MolnPEfKuX--