Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Conary - dispatch-conf

[Ed Grimm]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 LinuxGuy@×××.net wrote:

> Hi there, i've been putting in alot of work on dispatch-conf lately,
> adding features i personally need, and features that it should have. I
> have a new version of dispatch-conf posted at bug:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68618
>
> i believe it will solve one of your major problems with dispatch-conf as
> i have added a new option called "config file freezing" which allows you
> to specify config files you never want to be overwritten, like
> /etc/fstab /etc/password and /etc/group and so on. instead it will take
> the new files that portage tries to pass out and apply them to rcs (or
> archive them through whatever meathod you are using). I'm also taking
> suggestions on features to be added, so if you, or anyone else feels
> there are other features that should be added email me about it and
> we'll talk about what/how should be added.

This does sound promising.  Note that I cannot fathom any reason why I'd
want Gentoo's suggested updates archived into RCS for frozen files,
unless they were not placed on the main branch - I use RCS to track my
own changes, and I don't appreciate <censored>.

Ed

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