Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Suggestion: Backup option in make.conf

[Rafael Fernández López]

OK, it was just a suggestion. Thanks for your readings !!!

Bye,
Rafael Fernández López.

2005/10/15, Michiel de Bruijne <m.debruijne@××××××.nl>:
>
> On Saturday 15 October 2005 06:28, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
>
> > By turning this on, an "emerge -vuD world" can be done in one shot, I
> mean,
> > you can do an emerge -vuD world, and all the files could be replaced
> > (overwrited) by the new ones (etc-update), but you'll be able to access
> to
> > your backups if anything is wrong, so you don't have to go file by file
> > looking at the differences between them.
>
> Like Brian already said this behaviour will definitely break your system.
> If
> you want to backup "etc-updates" and want to minimize the number of files
> you
> need to evaluate you should use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update.
>
> dispatch-conf is part of portage and with rcs (version control system)
> integration you have automatically backups of you conf-files. It's also
> possible to;
> - automerge files comprising only CVS interpolations (e.g. Header or Id)
> - automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments
> - automerge files that the user hasn't modified
>
> After a while the only files you need tot evaluate are the ones that will
> break your system (examples given by Brian) or change the behaviour of
> your
> system in a way you don't want (e.g. change your hostname).
>
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>


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Saludos,
Rafael Fernández López.

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