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On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote: |
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> What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to |
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> be updated? |
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There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update |
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(which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ), |
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dispatch-conf and cfg-update. |
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> It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it |
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> actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually look |
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> them over to see what the differences are? |
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This will show the new files: |
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# find /etc -name ._cfg* |
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> Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed? |
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What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or |
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cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that first and |
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it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never bothered to |
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investigate. A couple of references: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4 |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622 |
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Bo Andresen |
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