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Hi, |
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why still using RCS for version control when there's git? :-) |
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 30 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:03:07 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: |
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>>>>> |
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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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>>> That's exactly what happened. |
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>>> |
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>>>> |
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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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>>> 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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>> I also used dispatch-config when it first came out, but I think it was |
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>> still in beta at the time. A couple of times it messed up my files when I |
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>> tried to manually merge them. Eventually, I decided to go back to |
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>> etc-update which would manually merge files without problem. I tried it |
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>> again now and unlike 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 |
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>> +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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>>>> (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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>> 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 need |
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> to check into conf-update tho. May be interesting. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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