Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-10-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 01 September 2005 04:09 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:16:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) If it's a file in /etc/initd then I update it automatically. This rule is still true. I am not a programmer and will never edit an init script. For me these are 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:16:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) If it's a file in /etc/initd then I update it automatically. This rule is still true. I am not a programmer and will never edit an init script. For me these are 100% updated ASAP. Add /etc/init.d to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:40 -0400, Sean Higgins wrote: It exists as an option with dispatch-conf, as do options to automatically replace files if the only differences are whitespace and comments. But, it does not automatically do an update if the original file has not changed. That

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-31 Thread Jerry Turba
Thanks everyone for your help. I will try using Marks rules and start using dispatch-conf to be able to roll back any changes that don't seem to work. Jerry Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/30/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/31/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone for your help. I will try using Marks rules and start using dispatch-conf to be able to roll back any changes that don't seem to work. Jerry Darn, that's scary! OK, if you're gonna follow someone as blind as me le me expand

[gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Jerry Turba
As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file to overwrite the old file. 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/30/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Roger Light
On 30/08/05, Jerry Turba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
Jerry Turba schreef: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a change to a file I will never allow the new config file to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Crossman
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:46 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Jerry Turba schreef: As I understand the process etc-update lists new configuration files provided by the program authors. I have tried to define some rules for myself to determine how to handle these new files. 1. If I made a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other package systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I only have to make choices when the system can't figure it out. It seems like etc-update (and friends)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

2005-08-30 Thread Sean Higgins
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 01:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other package systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I only have to make choices when the system can't