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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: A. Khattri [mailto:ajai@××××.net] |
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> Sent: 05 August 2005 14:14 |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please. |
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> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > You could try dispatch-conf (see manpage) or emerge conf-update. |
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> > Unfortunately, etc-update has many known bugs. The problem you |
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> > mentioned sounds like bug 26807. |
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> Both etc-update and dispatch-conf have good and bad points - none |
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> of them are ideal tools. For example, it would be nice if |
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> etc-update could |
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> archive config files into CVS. On the other hand, Im using |
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> vimdiff with |
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> etc-update which makes comparing config files very easy - |
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> dispatch-conf |
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> doesn't use vimdiff. Ive used both and ultimately stayed with |
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> etc-update |
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> (the colors in vimdiff make it easier to work with). |
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You can always emerge colordiff and change your etc-update.conf and/or |
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dispatch-conf.conf to use it. Lovely colours all around. :) |
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