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From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=), gentoo-dev@g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:28:59
Message-Id: 200301061026.36076.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo? by kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
1 On Monday 06 January 2003 7:25 am, Kai Großjohann wrote:
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3 > But even in the cfengine case, it would be useful to stash the
4 > original versions of config files somewhere such that a diff between
5 > A and C could be requested.
6 >
7 > What do people think?
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9 My /etc is full of manually created *.original files, so I can diff my manual
10 edits against a portage (or rpm) original. It would be really nice for
11 portage to automatically maintain these in /etc/portage-original (or
12 wherever)
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