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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:51:39
Message-Id: 43C06E9F.6080304@planet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem by Abhay Kedia
1 Abhay Kedia schreef:
2 > On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Holly Bostick wrote:
3 >
4 >> What might that be.....? Does something need to be re-initialized?
5 >> Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here.
6 >>
7 >
8 > afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are
9 > files that have been named in a specific way. It diffs the original
10 > file with its update and then asks you whether to overwrite or not.
11 > You can delete the ._cfg files or let them be. They will not cause
12 > you any problems.
13 >
14
15 OK, thanks-- I will add as a final note that I also needed to run
16
17 cfg-update -i
18
19 to get cfg-update to recalculate its checksum index, after which it also
20 stopped complaining.
21
22 So I'll consider this solved (even though I didn't delete the ._cfg
23 files, but then how often do I look in /usr/lib/X11/symbols?) and stop
24 worrying about it.
25
26 Thanks!
27
28 Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED] Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>