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From: oom <oom@××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] FIXED etc-update updated DOH!
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:58:48
Message-Id: 1082530695.1940.6.camel@mootop
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] etc-update updated by oom
1 Greets to all again!
2
3 Whilst firing off the origonal email I stupidly diffed the wrong file,
4 for backups in etc-update to work grab the new one from the link below,
5 or see this patch attached.
6
7 http://www.lgw.co.nz/~moo/gentoostuff/etc-update
8
9 feedback welcome.
10
11 On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 12:44, oom wrote:
12 > Greets to all,
13 >
14 > Whilst accidentally clobbering a few config files the other day I
15 > noticed a few bugs in the etc-update, namely:
16 > --
17 > Please select a file to edit by entering the corresponding number.
18 > (-1 to exit) (-3 to auto merge all remaining files)
19 > (-5 to auto-merge AND not use 'mv -i'): -3
20 >
21 > Replacing /etc/man.conf with /etc/._cfg1000_man.conf
22 > mv: overwrite `/etc/man.conf'? n
23 > Replacing /etc/man.conf with /etc/._cfg1000_man.conf
24 > mv: overwrite `/etc/man.conf'? n
25 > --
26 > plus i think there should be a backup option available before clobbering
27 > .conf files :-)
28 >
29 > So, see attached diff, or for those to lazy to patch get it at:
30 > http://www.lgw.co.nz/~moo/gentoostuff/etc-update
31 >
32 > Basicly option -3 works properly now, and you can add:
33 > backup="yes" to /etc/etc-update.conf
34 >
35 > cu,
36 > Steve.
37 >
38 > ______________________________________________________________________
39 > --
40 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

Attachments

File name MIME type
etc-update.patch text/x-patch