Still not a good thing. There could be some new option in the config file that needs setting. Anyway, with the exception of the XFree upgrade <groan>, we're not talking about a lot of time reviewing config files. The longest I've ever spent other than the XFree upgrade was five minutes. And that was after I had been in the hospital over a month and a lot of stuff had changed.
So with the present system, we're looking at 15-20 minutes once or twice a year for XFree. Add in 5 minutes monthly or 2-3 minutes if you upgrade more often than monthly (nightly for me). Does not seem like a hardship to me for the peace of mind of not having any changes made unknowingly to my system. Maybe you can get the maintaner of etc-update to add such a feature. I'll never use it. Just one screwed up config file will cost me more time debugging than it looks like I would spend in a year reviewing updated config files. * Jason Giangrande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-06 14:29:58 -0500]: > Ian, that was my point exactly. > > I'm not saying that, by default, etc-update should update all files > automatically but being able to tell it to update all files that I know > I haven't manually changed would be a good thing. > > >>Blindly merging new config files is extremely dangerous. As much of a > >>pain as it is, it is of utmost importance that you take the time to > >>review the changes and be sure they make sense for your system. You > >>surely wouldn't want your make.conf to just be overwritten. Not > >>updating or blindly updating the files in /etc is probably one of the > >>top reasons for system problems. There is a nice new feature that will > >>automatically update insignificant changes to the config files. Check > >>out /etc/etc-update.conf. Todd > >> > >True enough, but isn't there some way that we could track whether a > >config file has been altered? It seems to me that, except in very odd > >cases, a config file that has not been altered could just be updated > >automatically. > > > >Of course, I may be biased by having just updated to X 4.3 and had to > >cruise through 75 config files in etc-update. I think I wore out the > >colon and q keys :) -- Thomas M. Beaudry k8la / ys1ztm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
