On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:36:20 +0200, Gevisz wrote: > > > I was afraid to run etc-update as man says it will replace > > > everything automatically. However, I run dispatch-conf and it does > > > not see any problems at /etc/ssh, which have only the following > > > three files: moduli, ssh_config, sshd_config (though I have > > > added /etc/ssh to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK). > > > > Why did you do that? By masking out config file protection > > for /etc/ssh there will never be anything to be managed by etc-update > > as you have told portage to replace those files blindly and without > > asking. > > From man "dispatch-conf":
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK is a make.conf setting, read that man page. It means your config files are overwritten at install time, way be for you run dispatch-conf or one of its friends. > dispatch-conf will check all directories in the CONFIG_PROTECT > variable. All config files found in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK will > automatically be updated for you by dispatch-conf. > 3) I will continue to do this job manually with gvimdiff as I have > found it much more convenient than dispatch-conf (gvimdiff shows > the differences a way much better). I prefer conf-update but most of these tools allow you to specify your own diff program if you don't like the default. I use colordiff with conf-update. -- Neil Bothwick Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.
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