Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions..

[John Mylchreest]

There is work being done on this area quite actively I believe.
one addition is that things will be a lot more intuitive, and automerge
as much as possible. for example if the md5 sum of a file is the same as
the original one installed, it will automerge.

check out dispatch-conf for a little more insight.
I hope this clears some things up

- John

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:09, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 17:02, Stroller wrote:
> > On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:
> > > brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@×××××××.net] wrote:
> > >> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
> > >> system will break.
>
> No it doesn't break, it just breaks if you foolishly hit "just overwrite all
> files with the new version".
>
> > > Exactly.  I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
> > > making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
> > > /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; nano -w /etc/fstab).
> > I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was changed, were you to file
> > it as a bug. I'm cross posting to gentoo-dev to see what they think.
>
> I wouldn't be if it wouldn't. I would really like this to be consistent in
> gentoo. Syslog-ng has a syslog-ng.sample file, postfix has many sample files,
> many other packages don't and you got to use etc-update. Well sometimes I
> really welcome etc-update and config file merging and on other occasions it
> just sucks and is a pain in the ass. Difficult decision I'd say.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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