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From: Wonko@wonkology.org (Alex Schuster)
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update
Date: 27 Aug 2005 19:00:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ceQ3g3Pd8B@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200508271144.24637.menola@sbcglobal.net

Joe writes:

> So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
> which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
> Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which
> overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus giving
> us goofs a unlimited amount of chances to get it right.

> Any thoughts?

Try dispatch-conf instead of etc-update. When use_rcs ist set to yes  
in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf, and rcs is emerged, you get a backup of  
each file.

        Alex
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-27 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-27 16:44 [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update Joe Menola
2005-08-27 16:57 ` Kai Ole Schultz
2005-08-27 17:16   ` Joe Menola
2005-08-29  5:59   ` A. Khattri
2005-08-29 11:42     ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-08-27 17:00 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2005-08-29 22:05   ` Fernando Canizo
2005-08-28  2:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Alvin A ONeal Jr
2005-08-28 10:44   ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-30  7:26 ` [gentoo-user] " George Garvey

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