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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] auto updating untouched config files
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:46:44
Message-Id: 200405031000.28807.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] auto updating untouched config files by John Nilsson
1 On Monday 03 May 2004 06:00, John Nilsson wrote:
2 > Doesn't all this sound like a problem solved(sort of) by:
3 > SCCM, RCS, CVS, Subversion, GNU Arch, Monotone, Aegis, Bitkeeper, CVSNT,
4 > OpenCM, Darcs, Vesta, other... (list gatherd from
5 > http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html).
6 >
7 > Why on earth implement an other one?
8 >
9 > -John
10
11 John,
12
13 I don't see how any of those tools will address the requirement of having a
14 tool that will automatically replace CONFIG_PROTECTed files that have not
15 been modified since they were installed.
16
17 Best regards,
18 Stu
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