Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 22:37, Doug Weimer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 10:27, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> <snip>
> > As I posted in other mails - there are a few good reasons why we do
> > things as we do, and the CONFIG_EXCLUDE might be a solution to the
> > 'problem' (which in my opinion is still not CONFIG_PROTECT or 100%
> > the comments in the config files, but rather the 'merge process needed
> > for config files).
>
> What about a modification to etc-update that allows portions of a file
> to be protected? Something along the lines of:
>
> #Instructional comments
> #PROTECTED
>
> CFLAGS="..."
>
> #/PROTECTED
>
> Such tags and a method to auto-merge comment updates should eliminate a
> lot of the superfluous config file merging.
>
> Just a thought,
>

Have a look at dispatch-conf (ok, so its new for me as well ;)

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On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 22:21, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: 
> On Sun,  7 Sep 2003 20:41:56 +0100 (BST)
> Phil Richards <news@××××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 2003-09-06, Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>
> > wrote:
> > >  Python replacement for etc-update:
> > >  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14079
> >
> > Ok, read all that.  Found out what it is meant to be.
> > Didn't find the any hints about how to solve the error message.
>
> You have to create a backup directory somewhere. Set its location in
> "/etc/dispatch-conf.conf". (Default is /etc/config-archive, but I
> personally use /var/backup/config). While you are in this conf file, you
> should also decide whether you want the backup to be a collection of
> files or a RCS repository. And you can choose the type of
> automatic merges you want (I use automatic CVS header merge and
> unmodified files auto-upgade).
>
> And then you're ready to go, "alias etc-update=dispatch-conf" :)


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa