On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:23, bob bob wrote: > Last night I did an emerge sync last night followed by a emerge -uD world > when it had finished i had 24 ._cfg????_. type files that needed changing.. > This was a VERY laborious task to complete.. and made even more annoying by > the fact that some of the cfg file it wanted me to change were no different > from the other other ones apart from the date at the top of the file!! > > Surely there is a better way to update shit.. possibly some sort of script > that compares the two files and only shows what is different between the > two.. that way we can make faster easier changes/decisions.. > > Anyone else have input into this?
etc-update , pkg portage. Also see /etc/etc-update.conf I remember seeing a cfg file where you can set portage|etc-update to automatically update cfg files that have not been "manually" cfgd? Cheers, Lloyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list