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On Sunday 24 October 2004 13:27, andrea ferraris wrote: |
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> conceptually the creation of a reference is not mandatory. It's enough a |
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> diff between the actually installed and modified file and the original |
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> one of that version, since the system know which is the version of the |
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> original one. Then it knows which are the original lines that |
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Unfortunately the original version is normally not backed up so lost. Only the |
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md5sum of the original version is recorded. md5sums can not (should not be |
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able to) be used to to reconstruct the original. Dispatch conf does create |
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such a backup and allow this three-way conf. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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