Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
> > What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
> > be updated?
>
> There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
> (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
> dispatch-conf and cfg-update.
>

What's the matter with etc-update? It just does it all...

> > It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it
> > actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually look
> > them over to see what the differences are?
>
> This will show the new files:
>
> # find /etc -name ._cfg*
>
> > Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?
>
> What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or
> cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that first and
> it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never bothered to
> investigate. A couple of references:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622
>

I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never
needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned.

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