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Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote: |
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>> On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote: |
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>> > What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states |
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>> needs to |
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>> > be updated? |
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>> There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official |
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>> etc-update |
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>> (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ), |
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>> dispatch-conf and cfg-update. |
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> What's the matter with etc-update? It just does it all... |
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>> > It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it |
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>> > actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually |
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>> look |
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>> > them over to see what the differences are? |
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>> This will show the new files: |
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>> # find /etc -name ._cfg* |
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>> > Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed? |
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>> What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or |
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>> cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that |
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>> first and |
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>> it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never |
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>> bothered to |
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>> investigate. A couple of references: |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4 |
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>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622 |
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> I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... |
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> I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never |
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> needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned. |
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I have tried the other tools and they are not any better. The biggest |
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thing, no matter what tool you use, is to be VERY careful what you |
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update. For me, about 95% of the stuff is fine but that 5% can keel you |
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or make you wish you were dead. O_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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