-- Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > This leads me to the reason I don't like updating baselayout - it > contains lots of config files, and it takes a lot of time to go > through them and OK all the changes and it's easy to make mistakes. I > think work is being done on automating some of this in particular > auto-updating files that the user has never altered, which is a very > good thing.
I just checked in a modification to Portage (<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4709> for details) which supports this very thing. It keeps copies of installed config files so that it can compare against them when updating, and even supports auto-merging (ala CVS). I've been using it for close to a week now and love it. I just updated to the latest version of baselayout, and only had to run etc-update on one file (rc.conf). Hopefully it won't take too long to get approved (certainly not for 1.4, I'm sure); since I've moved all of the ._cfg files to a structure under /var/cache/edb I wouldn't be surprised if there's a certain amount of resistance to the change. I think it's a worthwhile addition, though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
