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Thanks Josh. I will look at "cfg-update". Best Regards. |
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2008/12/4 Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> |
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> Song Ma wrote: |
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> > I tried "dispatch-conf" and "etc-update". Here are two major differences |
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> > from my tool: |
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> > 1. For desktop user, my tool will invoke GUI based "kdiff3" to do diff |
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> > and merge files if the user installed the "kdiff3". And for remote login |
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> > user or the user without "kdiff3", the tool will just get the normal |
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> > text-base diff. |
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> > 2. My tool can override multiple config files in batch mode. Although |
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> > this is dangerous, sometime it's useful and not so nagging. |
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> You need to look at cfg-update, which has gtk+ and qt+ interfaces. And |
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> is arguably less dangerous. |
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> Better yet, just look around in the app-portage category; there are lots |
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> of config file update tools, in addition to the excellent ones already |
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> present in Portage. |
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> You also need to read the Portage handbook. It explains the built-in |
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> update tools: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4 |
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