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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:37:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F2DF0A.7080005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050805031304.GA31618@waltdnes.org>

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   After a while, it gets old telling etc-update after each emerge update
> that no, I do *NOT* want to change...
> 
>   - my clocktime setting from "local" to "UTC"
>   - my console font from "lat0-10" (48 rows with vga=2) to "default8x16"
>     (30 rows with vga=2).
>   - the hostnames of *BOTH* my Gentoo machines to "localhost" (try ssh
>     with *THAT* setup!?!?).
> 
>   Is there a way to get etc-update ignore those items?
> 


You could try dispatch-conf (see manpage) or emerge conf-update.  Unfortunately, etc-update has many known bugs.  The problem you mentioned sounds like bug 26807.

Zac
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-05  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-05  3:13 [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please Walter Dnes
2005-08-05  3:37 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2005-08-05 13:14   ` A. Khattri
2005-08-05 13:50     ` Michael Kintzios
2005-08-05 14:01       ` A. Khattri
2005-08-05 14:15         ` Mark Knecht
2005-08-06  4:31           ` A. Khattri
2005-08-09 14:34             ` Robert Svoboda
2005-08-05 21:02         ` Daevid Vincent
2005-08-06  4:31           ` A. Khattri

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