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