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From: Romans Malinovskis <romans@××××.lv>
To: Matt Tucker <tuck@×××××××××××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage config auto-update
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 21:14:51
Message-Id: 200302092306.02454.romans@void.lv
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage config auto-update by Matt Tucker
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4 > If config_automerge is disabled, everything is the same except for the
5 > automatic update of foo.conf during foo-1.2. Then it's just a matter of
6 > doing it manually through etc-update.
7 >
8 > So far it's been serving me quite well. Updating packages like
9 > baselayout have generally required my intervention on at most one or
10 > two files (often none). The feature needs to be extensively tested, of
11 > course (messing up config files is not acceptable), but once it is I
12 > think it'll be a stellar addition.
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14 Everything is great. What about feature to disable "config_automerge" for
15 particular config file by creating /etc/.foo.conf.do_not_change?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage config auto-update Matt Tucker <tuck@×××××××××××××.net>