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On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:08, aeriksson@××××××××.fm wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Being slow on updating config files (/etc/* et al) after emerge -u |
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> world on al of my boxes i often find that I have a HUGE amount of |
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> ._cfg* files to deal with. The sad part is that many (most!) of them |
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> I've never changed myself and I have little reason not to go with the |
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> flow and accept a new default config file. So out of the 250 .cfg* |
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> files i have right now on my laptop, I guess 20 or so i really need to |
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> look into before doing any mods. |
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> Q: Why is there no option to run an MD5 on all the installed config |
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> files, and give the user the option to 'accept new defaults, if the |
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> old ones are untouched'? _That_ would be very handy... |
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> /A |
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This is something that annoys the hell out of me too, so I had a look into it. |
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By the time etc-update runs, there's no information it can use to determine |
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whether or not the config-file has been edited by the system administrator. |
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I fear that this is a feature that needs adding to Portage proper. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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