Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Svoboda
* A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-07 18:51]: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: With vimdiff how do yo make the actual changes? Can you somehow tell it to apply certain lines from file2 to file1 or do you have to copy and paste by hand? If there are minor changes, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote: You could try dispatch-conf (see manpage) or emerge conf-update. Unfortunately, etc-update has many known bugs. The problem you mentioned sounds like bug 26807. Both etc-update and dispatch-conf have good and bad points - none of them are ideal tools.

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 August 2005 14:14 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please. On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote: You could try dispatch-conf (see manpage

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: You can always emerge colordiff and change your etc-update.conf and/or dispatch-conf.conf to use it. Lovely colours all around. :) Ive tried it with dispatch-conf. I went back to etc-update and vimdiff (since its vi, its easy to move around and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/5/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: You can always emerge colordiff and change your etc-update.conf and/or dispatch-conf.conf to use it. Lovely colours all around. :) Ive tried it with dispatch-conf. I went back to etc-update and

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I'll put in a plug for meld if you're like me and non-masochistic. It's an X-windows application and is as simple as point click. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:03:06AM -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, John wrote: This email address is being abandoned due to the sick amount of junk mail I receive. Please stop spamming it. If you are a friend and need to contact me I can be reached at: Email:

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: With vimdiff how do yo make the actual changes? Can you somehow tell it to apply certain lines from file2 to file1 or do you have to copy and paste by hand? If there are minor changes, you can directly edit the update then save, quit and merge the

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Daevid Vincent wrote: I'll put in a plug for meld if you're like me and non-masochistic. It's an X-windows application and is as simple as point click. Yeah, but that's no use on a server without X now is it? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-04 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: After a while, it gets old telling etc-update after each emerge update that no, I do *NOT* want to change... - my clocktime setting from local to UTC - my console font from lat0-10 (48 rows with vga=2) to default8x16 (30 rows with vga=2). - the hostnames of *BOTH*