From: Jerry Turba <jturba@nethere.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:58:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43146614.6000002@nethere.com> (raw)
As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files
provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for
myself to determine how to handle these new files.
1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file
to overwrite the old file.
2. If the new config file is a new default file I will accept the new file.
3. I will never change a file that is program code, (I am not a programmer).
Are these rules sane? What kind of problems could I run into doing this?
What would be some better rules to use? I have tried dispatch-conf but I
still have to make the same decisions. Am I missing something?
Thanks for any advice.
Jerry
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-30 13:58 Jerry Turba [this message]
2005-08-30 14:23 ` [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates Mark Knecht
2005-09-01 0:46 ` Jerry Turba
2005-09-01 3:16 ` Mark Knecht
2005-09-01 8:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-31 17:33 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2005-08-30 14:31 ` Roger Light
2005-08-30 14:46 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-30 16:06 ` Eric Crossman
2005-08-30 17:15 ` Tony Davison
2005-08-30 17:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-30 21:19 ` Sean Higgins
2005-08-31 9:10 ` Neil Bothwick
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