Ah, 'etc-update'! I knew there was some tool to semi-automate the process, but I can never remember the name.
The emerge warning always directs me to consult 'emerge --help config' for more information, but this omits any mention of anything other than manual searching and updating.. Perhaps it would be better if the emerge warning directed people to consult 'man etc-update' instead, with the content of of 'emerge --help config' incorporated into that entry. The other thing that I would quite like to see is some way to identify the package that generated the update file. Maybe encoded into the '._cfg..' filename, or logged in a file somewhere. Sometimes it is not obvious where to look if more information is needed to decide if an update is necessary.. Or is this information available somewhere and I just havn't found it??? Anyway, thanks for the advice. I'll discard the alsa update file. Regards, DigbyT On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:08:50PM -0500, Scott Jones wrote: > Digby, > > Etc-update always wants to replace files that are different from the > standard files (baseline files). The secret is to remember which files you > changed and not let it replace them. So, if you want your alsa to keep > working do not let it modify your already-modified files. Also watch out for > it to want to change /etc/fstab, this is a quite common rookie mistake. > > Good Luck, > > Scott Jones > > On 4/19/05, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My first 'update world' seems to have complete sucessfully, having > > overcome the mozilla sensitifity to environment settings and the > > mysterious > > file size discrepency of my RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm > > file... > > > > That just left the protected directory file updates, all of which > > seemed straight forward except for an update that was provided > > for /etc/modules.d/alsa as follows: > > diff alsa ._cfg0000_alsa > > 17d16 > > < alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 > > 21d19 > > < alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > > > > It looks to me like that would just remove my customization for > > the local hardware, which I would expect would have stopped my > > sound card from working.... > > > > Or has there been some change that makes that configuration > > information obsolete? > > > > Is it safe/wise to decide to discard one of the update files > > like this? > > > > Regards, > > DigbyT > > -- > > Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.digbyt.com > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
