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From: Michiel de Bruijne <m.debruijne@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Suggestion: Backup option in make.conf
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:53:54
Message-Id: 200510151053.39289.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Suggestion: Backup option in make.conf by "Rafael Fernández López"
1 On Saturday 15 October 2005 06:28, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
2
3 > By turning this on, an "emerge -vuD world" can be done in one shot, I mean,
4 > you can do an emerge -vuD world, and all the files could be replaced
5 > (overwrited) by the new ones (etc-update), but you'll be able to access to
6 > your backups if anything is wrong, so you don't have to go file by file
7 > looking at the differences between them.
8
9 Like Brian already said this behaviour will definitely break your system. If
10 you want to backup "etc-updates" and want to minimize the number of files you
11 need to evaluate you should use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update.
12
13 dispatch-conf is part of portage and with rcs (version control system)
14 integration you have automatically backups of you conf-files. It's also
15 possible to;
16 - automerge files comprising only CVS interpolations (e.g. Header or Id)
17 - automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments
18 - automerge files that the user hasn't modified
19
20 After a while the only files you need tot evaluate are the ones that will
21 break your system (examples given by Brian) or change the behaviour of your
22 system in a way you don't want (e.g. change your hostname).
23
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Suggestion: Backup option in make.conf "Rafael Fernández López" <ereslibre@×××××.com>