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 1L1Kxm-0008RY-Nv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:13:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC0CCE03D0; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE482E03D0 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d376.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.211.118]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mAFDDJSl018940 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:13:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 49B1419D921; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:13:13 -0500 (EST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates References: <87skpu2uda.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811141714.03627.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200811150905.22494.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:13:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200811150905.22494.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (Dirk Heinrichs's message of "Sat\, 15 Nov 2008 09\:05\:22 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 708cde72-2509-43db-8f27-8ba0bbb1383e X-Archives-Hash: d1b358d9097201008f8cad86662e6f51 At Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:05:22 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >> On Freitag 14 November 2008, 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. >> >> cfg-update makes updates REALLY easy and comfortable. > > Yep, and it gives the possibility to use your favorite diff/merge tool (diff, > kdiff3, vimdiff, emacs, xxdiff, etc.). With the right choice it even supports How hard was it to hook in emacs-ediff? It wasn't mentioned in the cfg-update docs I read. > automatik (3-way) merging, reducing manual intervention to a minimum. > > IMHO the best tool for the job. Thanks, allan