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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:04:34
Message-Id: 491E9097.9020805@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates by Dale
1 Dale schrieb:
2 > Harry Putnam wrote:
3 >
4 >> I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease
5 >> the update of etc files following updates.
6 >>
7 >> Can anyone say what tools are currently available.
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>
11 >>
12 >>
13 >
14 > dispatch-conf works. May want to try them all and pick the one you
15 > like. I like etc-update as far as the update process. I like this one
16 > because it keeps backups of the old config files.
17 >
18 > It's like the cereal aisle, your choice.
19 >
20 > Dale
21 >
22 > :-) :-)
23 >
24 >
25 A cool thing with dispatch-conf:
26
27 emerge colordiff and change in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf the diff="diff
28 ..." to diff="colordiff...". You also can change the mergening command
29 to anything you like more e.g. gui merging tools

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Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@×××××.com>