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Stuart Herbert schrieb: |
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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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I would appreciate to have this on 2004.2 Feature Request list. Most of |
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the gentoo users I know personally tell me: "The worst thing for any new |
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Gentoo users is etc-update". Reducing the amount of config files they |
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have to cope with should be _very_ helpful. It would also lower the load |
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of "I wiped my /etc/"-reports on forums.g.o and IRC when people only |
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have to go for a handful of updates instead of dozens. The chance they |
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just hit "-5" might be smaller. |
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0.02€ |
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Danny |
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