On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably
the majority, won't be flaged at
Peter Humphrey writes:
I'm still using etc-update, which seems adequate except when squid is
upgraded, but I thought I'd try cfg-update. Problem though: it demands
dev-util/xxdiff which doesn't exist. What's a suitable substitute?
Whatever you like. Just edit the MERGETOOL definition in
On Friday 26 February 2010 18:47:40 Alex Schuster wrote:
What's a suitable substitute?
Whatever you like. Just edit the MERGETOOL definition in /etc/cfg-
update.conf:
# +--+
# | MERGETOOL \
#
++---
+ # |The
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the
majority, won't be flaged at all.
so does cfg-update
Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and I
give it
On Montag 22 Februar 2010, daid kahl wrote:
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably
the majority, won't be flaged at all.
so does cfg-update
Every now and then, someone
On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the
majority, won't be flaged at
On Samstag 20 Februar 2010, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:08:05 +, Mick wrote:
I expect that if I were still using etc-update or dispatch-conf I
would welcome it with open arms though.
You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and
etc-update that bad then?
They're not bad in that they do the basic
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 12:08 +, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:01:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints
Run conf-update and press a then d :)
But I'm a paranoid snarky old git and that doesn't work for me!
But d rejects all the changes, leaving your own configs.
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:01:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints
Run conf-update and press a then d :)
But I'm a paranoid snarky old git and that doesn't work for me!
But
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the
majority, won't be flaged at all.
so does cfg-update
Every now and then, someone
Hi, Alan,
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:27:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:55:29 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky.
One non-functioning
On 13 Feb 2010, at 17:51, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
...
There was that apocryphal tale of the origianl Unix hacker who
hardwired
a backdoor login into the system, and hacked cc to _keep_ inserting
the
backdoor each time the system was built, and to keep this hack in cc
each
time cc was
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
/etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP
wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs.
Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around
anyway,
For this case, it's
On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:51:05 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Thanks! In the end, I just used the gcc I had on the system anyway; it
wasn't broken. I first did 'emerge -e gcc', which took an hour, then did
'emerge -e world', which took ~2 hours 30 mins.
I was being a bit paranoid. The
On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:43:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
/etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP
wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs.
Of course, a backup of /etc is always a
Hi, Gentoo!
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
What I'd like to do is reinstall every binary, yet without erasing any
configuration info, whose
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo!
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
What I'd like to do is reinstall every
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
tar up /etc.
Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
been tested are not backups! :D
--
Kyle
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote:
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
tar up /etc.
Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
been tested are not backups! :D
/etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do
equery check package compares current with the as installed checksum
(or something like that!) for the packages files.
emerge -ep world a
edit a to add equery check before each package name
run sh a b and got hrough the list in b to see whats broke - lots of
debris - config files etc will show
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:55:29 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo!
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
What I'd like to do is reinstall
On Saturday 13 February 2010 00:52:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote:
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
tar up /etc.
Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
been tested are not
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