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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:18:56PM -0500, Ed Grimm wrote: |
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>>My issue is: Gentoo's patch system does not take current state into |
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>>account in any appropriate manner. This means that any file in /etc |
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>>which I have made changes will be updated improperly; I'll therefore |
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>>need to either throw out new changes or adapt them to my changes every |
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>>time Gentoo considers updating them. |
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> I don't think it's possible to magically update configuration files that you |
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> have altered and be able to tell you that the updated configuration file |
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> still is 100% functional. |
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100% maybe not, but actually the gentoo way is 0% and maybe between 0 |
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and 100 there are some other figures ;-) |
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>>As an example, I'm not using the standard Gentoo partition layout. This |
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>>means that, every so often, Gentoo tries to "fix" my fstab. |
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> Ignore the update. There is no reason why you should update your /etc/fstab; |
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> unless you alter filesystems or partition layouts, /etc/fstab is static. |
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I did that most times, but why I have to do it?! |
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To avoid such annoyance it's not needed AI or grid computing, it's |
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enough Animal Intelligence ;-) anyway Scriptable Intelligence. |
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>>Other files which tend to be incredibly frustrating are basic config |
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>>files. For example, /etc/etc-update.conf. Every time an upgrade |
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>>decides it wants to check on the status of this file, it decides that, |
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>>on the whole, I was mistaken regarding my choice of difference viewer, |
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>>and the various other options I specified. |
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> You can interactively merge the changes. Most of the time, you can easily |
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> skim through the changes it proposes and decide that there is no need to |
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> merge them. |
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As said, but why I have to do that if most times it could be avoided by |
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means of a kind script? |
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Andrea |
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