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Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 30 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:03:07 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: |
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>>>> # etc-update |
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>>>> [...] |
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>>>> File: /etc/portage/._cfg0000_package.use |
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>>>> [...] |
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>>>> What is it about? |
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>>>> |
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>>> No, I didn't see it, but it looks like some package moved to another |
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>>> category or got renamed so portage patched package.use for you. |
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>>> |
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>> That's exactly what happened. |
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>>> Try |
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>>> dispatch-config, preferably with vimdiff and perhaps RCS support, it |
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>>> makes maintaining your config so much easier than etc-update. |
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>>> |
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>> I used dispatch-config for years, but have now switched to conf-update |
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>> after Alan recommended it. |
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>> |
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> I also used dispatch-config when it first came out, but I think it was still |
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> in beta at the time. A couple of times it messed up my files when I tried to |
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> manually merge them. Eventually, I decided to go back to etc-update which |
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> would manually merge files without problem. I tried it again now and unlike |
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> etc-update it nicely shows the differences: |
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> =============================================== |
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> --- /etc/portage/package.use 2008-08-22 07:57:52.000000000 +0100 |
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> +++ /etc/portage/._cfg0000_package.use 2008-08-28 06:06:29.000000000 +0100 |
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> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ |
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> media-gfx/splashutils fbcondecor |
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> net-im/pidgin sasl gtk |
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> net-dialup/ppp gtk |
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> -app-emulation/virtualbox additions |
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> +app-emulation/virtualbox-ose additions |
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> www-client/mozilla-firefox moznopango |
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> media-video/vlc cdda libnotify vlm wxwindows xosd |
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> net-www/mplayerplug-in gtk |
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> |
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>>> (1 of 1) -- /etc/portage/package.use |
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>>> q quit, h help, n next, e edit-new, z zap-new, u use-new |
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>>> |
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> m merge, t toggle-merge, l look-merge: |
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> =============================================== |
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> Thank you. |
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I still use etc-update too. I keep backups of my /etc just in case. I |
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need to check into conf-update tho. May be interesting. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |