Re: [gentoo-dev] auto updating untouched config files

[Marius Mauch]

On 05/02/04  Stuart Herbert wrote:

> On Sunday 02 May 2004 16:01, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > On 05/02/04  Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > > On Sunday 02 May 2004 15:27, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/16090
> > >
> > > Hmmm ... according to that, you're still planning to have the
> > > ._cfg files?
> >
> > Yes, but they will just be diffs of the changes between the old and
> > new original config files, so for example you won't get asked to
> > update/etc/fstab for each baselayout update, and if there are
> > changes you don't risk to nuke your modified version completely.
> >
> > Marius
>
> Doesn't that create a risk that all these diff files will just build
> up until the root file system gets full?  I imagine a lot of our users
> won't know / think to do an ls -a under /etc.
>
> Also - won't etc-config still pick these up? :(

Well, the idea is to modify etc-update to handle the diffs ;) I don't
really want to re-educate our whole userbase away from etc-update and to
change all docs.

Marius

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