[gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
My first 'update world' seems to have complete sucessfully, having overcome the mozilla sensitifity to environment settings and the mysterious file size discrepency of my RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm file... That just left the protected directory file updates, all of which seemed

Re: [gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Scott Jones
Digby, Etc-update always wants to replace files that are different from the standard files (baseline files). The secret is to remember which files you changed and not let it replace them. So, if you want your alsa to keep working do not let it modify your already-modified files. Also watch out

Re: [gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Ah, 'etc-update'! I knew there was some tool to semi-automate the process, but I can never remember the name. The emerge warning always directs me to consult 'emerge --help config' for more information, but this omits any mention of anything other than manual searching and updating.. Perhaps it