On Friday 05 September 2003 19:38, Joshua Banks wrote: > [quote]Warning: etc-update can provide you with a list of configuration > files that have newer versions at your disposal. Verify that none of the > configuration files have a big impact (such as /etc/fstab, /etc/make.conf, > /etc/rc.conf, ...). Merge the files that don't have such a big impact, > remove the updates of the others or view the diff and manually update the > configuration file. [/quote]
etc-update is utility you should use when portage tells you that there are config files that need updating. When portage updates or installs something that would ordinarily overwrite a config file, portage will instead install the file to ._cfg0000<origname>. etc-update will scan your directories and tell you which of these files exist. It allows primitive merging however most people use it to get a list of what files (may) have changed and update what they have previously changed manually and then delete the ._cfg0000 files.. Once that is done, etc-update can be used to replace any (remaining) configuration files with the default installed version. Hope that made sense! Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
