[gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous. The only files that I'm familiar with are the ones that I touched

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
My rule of thumb - if I haven't touched it myself then I turn etc-update loose. Usually it's hosts, make.conf, fstab and files that you have to edit and setup that I do manually. Most of the files below you can let etc-update have it's way. I don't know about dispatch-conf. On Wed, 17 Sep

RE: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
Joshua Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous. I agree. The only files that

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Davide Brini
On 14:27, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, Joshua Banks wrote: 1) /etc/dispatch-conf.conf /etc/._cfg_dispatch-conf.conf Don't know, I don't use it. 2) /etc/issue /etc/._cfg_issue I kept mine, but if you replace it with the suggested one it won't hurt too much. This file contains the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. You don't need to be a programmer at all - that's much harder. What you

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Ian Tindale
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 3:50 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. You

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 18 September 2003 00:08, Ian Tindale wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 3:50 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which