On 23 February 2010 02:06, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: > >> well, cfg-update keeps a backup. It detects manual edits and try to >> resolve conflicts resulting from that automatically. Which works >> surprisingly well. If > > Volker gave me that same advice long ago, I've used cfg-update ever > since. > > Its capable of dispatching meaningless file updates in the blink of an > eye, and offers several well known methods for resolving those that > need it. > > I personally use vimdiff with it, but there are several other options. > Its just a good solid tool. >
Better than my first days of gentoo when I just either manually deleted the files or copied them to the new ones as portage complained. I'd just search for ._ files in /etc. Yeah, that sucked Then I was like "oh, etc-update, this is great." Then I was like "dispatch-conf, thats greater!" So now that I've got a lot of crap to clean out again...I emerged both of these guys. I'll probably add some extra superlatives. Hah! ~daid
