Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'

2005-12-06 Thread Grant 
 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 system it also
 wants to re-install the config files. If you are fairly confident that
 you don't need these changes (as most of them will want to revert your
 config file back to the original) you can run etc-update letting it
 merge trivial changes and then tell it to keep all the files as is,
 discarding the updates.

 -Mike

Alright, thanks Mike.

- Grant

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[gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'

2005-12-05 Thread Grant 
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

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'

2005-12-05 Thread Chris Fairles 

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 to overwrite them back to the default.


Chris.
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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update after 'emerge -e world'

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Crute 
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 system it also
wants to re-install the config files. If you are fairly confident that
you don't need these changes (as most of them will want to revert your
config file back to the original) you can run etc-update letting it
merge trivial changes and then tell it to keep all the files as is,
discarding the updates.

-Mike

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SoftGroup Development Corporation

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