Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Stroller <root@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
Cc: gentoo-user@g.o, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions..
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:49:15
Message-Id: 1063813594.3092.42.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions.. by Stroller
1 On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:02, Stroller wrote:
2 > On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:
3 >
4 > > brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@×××××××.net] wrote:
5 > >
6 > >> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
7 > >> system will break.
8 > >
9 > > Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
10 > > making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
11 > > /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; nano -w /etc/fstab).
12 >
13 > I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was changed, were you to file
14 > it as a bug. I'm cross posting to gentoo-dev to see what they think.
15 >
16 > Stroller.
17
18 I think it is a great idea.
19
20 You definitely have my support.
21
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23 Chris Gianelloni
24 Developer, Gentoo Linux
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