--- Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after a world update now I got more than 50 config files needing > updating and I am wondering if there might be a BETTER way of doing > this - better than the usual manually diffing of each single file > to see if I can take the old one or the new one or must merge with > the new one... >
Some people will manually diff the files that they know they've touched during intial install. Files that you've never touched or modified by hand I would say its safe to just update those with the new file blindly. I myself still go through each file just to see what the differences are. But then again I have nothing but time on my hands.
I have a pretty good idea of what files I've modified myself and only 'diff' those. etc-update might list one that I don't remember editing, but seeing it's name will sometimes "help" me remember. :-)
Finally, look into CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK (I think that's it or something similar) in your /etc/make.conf file. You can list files that you do NOT want the emerge process to touch at all. Two good examples are /etc/fstab or /etc/lilo.conf.
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