On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:40:58 +0100
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:30, Arnau Bria wrote:
[...]
It's done because of the updates files
in /usr/portage/profiles/updates/ which I think are read during
`emerge --sync`. I'm not aware of any documentation for this so I
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:30, Arnau Bria wrote:
It's the first time that etc-update changes something in
my /etc/portage dir.
It has changed x11-themes/emerald-themes cause it has changed its
category and removed ksudoku...
I undestand first change, but not second one, so could someone
On Friday 13 October 2006 18:56, maxim wexler wrote:
Hello group,
Interesting discussion here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-478783.html
What does the group think?
-Maxim
I am not 'the group' but I am using etc-update. It is all that I need. I tried
dispatch-conf once and it was
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:46:16 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
Why? No need for that. etc-update covers all my needs - I don't have
stupid fingers...
My fingers aren't stupid, but they can be downright disobedient at
times :(
I prefer dispatch-conf, but not for the RCS feature, rdiff-backup
On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf':
Interesting discussion here:
I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use
RCS and turned on all the auto-merge options and never looked back.
On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf':
Interesting discussion here:
I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use
RCS and
On 10/13/06, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf': Interesting discussion here: I didn't read it, but after I
dispatch-conf is just a more robust and
full-featured system for
updating config files. I read the first page of that
discussion and it
seems most of those who use etc-update haven't tried
dispatch-conf.
The rest feel they don't need the added features.
IMHO dispatch-conf
should be the
On AD 2006 September 09 Saturday 11:06:21 PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hello!
In /etc/etc-update.conf, there's the using_editor= (with 0 and 1,
for false and true) setting.
What's that supposed to mean? What does it do? When should
it be set to 1 (true) and when to 0? What's an
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:09, A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote:
I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
It works great, But the interface sucks.
What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote:
A. Khattri wrote:
For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
For me, seeing the diffs
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote:
I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
It works great, But the interface sucks.
What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping
statement.
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Philip Webb wrote:
Even if you're not normally a Vim user, this shows the diffs very clearly
allows you to copy your personal changes from old to new versions.
Vim is great for looking at diffs and copying between config files.
Anyone hacked dispath-conf to use cvs/svn
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:38:49 +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
The interface oh well.. but what I dislike about etc-update (and it's
replacements afaik) is this tendency to want to restore files to their
original state.. One keypress to many, one moment of not paying enough
attention an
On Thursday 29 June 2006 12:09 pm, A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote:
I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
It works great, But the interface sucks.
What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping
statement.
The action
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Daevid Vincent wrote:
I use Meld as well. It's outstanding.
But like you, I want to use a 'console' diff program for my remote servers
(that don't have X installed).
I've looked for a HOWTO or quick tutorial on vimdiff and couldn't find one.
On Thursday 29 June 2006 23:42, David Corbin wrote:
I wonder if something could be done with digital signatures, so that it
only pestered you about files you've edited.
That's something dispatch-conf can do.
From /etc/dispatch-conf (note the default is no):
# Automerge files that the user
basically.
DÆVID
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From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:38 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update
On Monday 26 June 2006 16:24, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hm. Why? What's bad about etc
On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
be updated?
There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
(which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
dispatch-conf and
Sean wrote:
What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
be updated?
Check them.
It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it
actually put this list into a file anywhere
Not to my knowledge.
so that I can manually look
them over to
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
be updated?
There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
(which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
(which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
dispatch-conf and cfg-update.
Actually all the update tools have pros and cons.
For example,
On Monday 26 June 2006 16:29, A. Khattri wrote:
For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...
On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
be updated?
There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
(which sucks and should have
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states
needs to
be updated?
There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official
etc-update
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
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
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Monday 26 June 2006 16:29, A. Khattri wrote:
For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Teresa and Dale wrote:
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?
Is use-rcs=yes in /etc/dispath-conf.conf ?
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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Monday 26 June 2006 16:24, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hm. Why? What's bad about etc-update?
I dislike using diff.
Hm. dispatch-conf uses diff as well and etc-update can be configured
to use a different program.
On my desktop I use meld (all graphical) and on my
On Monday 26 June 2006 19:28, A. Khattri wrote:
For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...
Why would you think that cfg-update and dispatch-conf cannot show you the
diffs?
Vim diff?
Was that a question?! diff is the default. I have used vimdiff, kompare and
now I'm using
A. Khattri wrote:
For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...
ACK
But dispatch-conf uses
A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Teresa and Dale wrote:
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?
Is use-rcs=yes in /etc/dispath-conf.conf ?
060626 Sean wrote:
What is the best way to handle the files
that etc-update states needs to be updated?
You provoked a bit of a debate (smile), but in case it's still not clear,
I've long used Etc-update with Gvim as defined in /etc/etc-update.conf :
# pager for use with diff commands (see
Le lundi 26 juin 2006 à 08:36 -0400, Sean a écrit :
What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
be updated?
I use dispatch-conf with color highlighting
the big advantage of dispatch-conf is that you can configure it to
replace config files that you didn't modify
I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
It works great, But the interface sucks.
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.
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On 12/5/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e
system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with
a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update?
- Grant
Because emerge -e re-installs every package
Grant wrote:
I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e
system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with
a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update?
- Grant
Missed a few last time around? If you made your own changes it might be
trying
On 12/5/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e
system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with
a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update?
- Grant
Because emerge -e re-installs every package on your
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