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

[John Nilsson]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:00, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On Monday 03 May 2004 06:00, John Nilsson wrote:
> > Doesn't all this sound like a problem solved(sort of) by:
> > SCCM, RCS, CVS, Subversion, GNU Arch, Monotone, Aegis, Bitkeeper, CVSNT,
> > OpenCM, Darcs, Vesta, other... (list gatherd from
> > http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html).
> >
> > Why on earth implement an other one?
> >
> > -John
>
> John,
>
> I don't see how any of those tools will address the requirement of having a
> tool that will automatically replace CONFIG_PROTECTed files that have not
> been modified since they were installed.
>
> Best regards,
> Stu

Think of /etc as a working copy and the set of packaged files as the
repository, etc-update would just be a front to resolve update
conflicts.

I must admit I don't know all of those tools, but subversion seems to
handle the problem rather well.

-John