Re: [gentoo-user] emerge default config

Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:

> Am Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:30:07 -0500
> schrieb Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:12 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:45 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@×××××.com> wrote:
> > >> > Is there a way to have default config lines that emerge updates won't touch?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> I'd be interested in hearing about alternatives, but I switched to
> > >> cfg-update from dispatch-conf and such because it does automatic 3-way
> > >> merging.  It is pretty good about detecting stuff that you customized
> > >> and auto-merging those lines as long as the upstream file doesn't
> > >> change.  If it does, then you get a 3-way merge in meld or another
> > >> tool to do the merge.  95% of the time it just automerges all config
> > >> file updates without any interaction.
> > >>
> > >> I inherited maintaining this upstream, so feel free to submit
> > >> improvements.  It is a fairly mature tool but we've had some great
> > >> contributions to keep it up-to-date with portage/paludis apis.
> > >
> > > I was using that, but it didn't do any automatic 3-way merge for me, I
> > > do everything from a text console.  I am now using etc-update which is
> > > not too bad.
> >
> > I'd have to take another look, but I don't think the automatic merge
> > works unless you're using a 3-way diff tool, and I think those are all
> > X11.
>
> The man page to cfg-update says that it needs diff3 for the automatic three-way
> merge (STAGE2), which is part of diffutils.  Interestingly, cfg-update does not
> depend on diffutils, so maybe you (Covici) just need to install it?
>
> And for manual three-way merges (STAGE3) there are, at the very least, Vim and
> Emacs.

I found that cfg-update rarely did its automatic merge (I do have
diffutils) and so there was nothing to be gained between cfg-update and
etc-update which seemed better as long as you were not relying on
automatic merge.  It seemed to only do it on comments, but I can't say
that was always true.

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