Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:59:09 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: > > > >>>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. >>> >>> > >If you haven't tried them, you can't know whether they are better or not. > > > >>I have tried the other tools and they are not any better. The biggest >>thing, no matter what tool you use, is to be VERY careful what you >>update. For me, about 95% of the stuff is fine but that 5% can keel you >>or make you wish you were dead. O_O >> >> > >This alone makes dispatch-conf worthwhile, because you can roll back any >changes it makes. > > > >
Well, I make backups of etc anyway. I just copy it to old-etc and keep it lying around. I ran into a blank inittab once and even dispatch-conf wouldn't have saved me there. I don't think it was a update, just got erased somehow. I'm not sure how that happened either cause I don't even look at that one. I just recognized what it was doing and that it was blank. I also seem to recall that dispatch-conf didn't keep back-ups on mine. I had the directory but it was always empty even after a lot of updates. You know of any reason for that? Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
