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> Ditto for here. However, I was thinking of implementing something more |
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> intelligent, based around a 3-way merge. It's just a quick and dirty |
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> script that scans for updates, ala etc-update, then calls out to |
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> something a little more appropriate, like meld or xxdiff. It would keep |
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> a copy of the 'vanilla' config files in /.etc (or something), and |
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> attempt 3-way merges, assuming that /.etc/config is the common ancestor |
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> of /etc/config and /etc/.config000 (I forget exactly how portage names |
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> them); after a successful merge it would move the new vanilla file |
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> to /.etc. |
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> I hope that makes sense. |
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> Any comments? |
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Do man dispatch-conf first. :-) |
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Not that it is perfect by any means. |
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Dave F |
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