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


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