brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up.
on a unix-system mostly anything you do blindly, as root, will mess
up your system. and, on a unix-system, with your eyes open, that
mess can be fixed.
Every update that
Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight
I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not
I'm doing
this correctly. It seems that any time there's questions about etc-update everyone
seems to be
hush-hush.
I've layed out what my goal is, what I've
Only thing i can say is instead of
cp new.cfg old.cfg
rm old.cfg
u could just
mv old.cfg new.cfg
Joshua Banks wrote:
Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight
I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not
I'm doing
this correctly. It seems that
why not use etc-update? seems to save much hassle and time for me.
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 02:30, Joshua Banks wrote:
Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight
I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or
not I'm doing
this correctly. It seems that
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 13:49, Joshua Banks wrote:
Just fishing here..+ acouple of questions.
**
My Goal in this posting:
Is to learn how-to correctly manually update the files without the use of
ect-update.
Well, the correct way
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:30:14PM -0700, Joshua Banks wrote:
Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight
I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or
not I'm doing
this correctly. It seems that any time there's questions about etc-update everyone
Thanks for the replies everyone.
All the suggestions have helped.
JBanks
--- Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:30:14PM -0700, Joshua Banks wrote:
Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight
I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to
Ok...
So do I goto the list when I'm unsure about differences in files that I'm unsure of.
Some of them
are common sense type differences but others I'm unsure of like dispatch-conf.conf
The new file doesn't have the header at the beginning and there are all sorts of
changes that are
beyond
Feel pretty silly now :p
etc-update
Was staring me in the face the whole time begging me to use it...CORRECTLY...that is..
:D
JBanks
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Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both
files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and
see what is new and then modify one of the files. For
example, with make.conf I keep my old and move stuff from
the new one to the old. However, with the last baselayout
Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
system will break. Also, when you modify your make.conf
file you don't want it overwritten mindlessly. If you
notice etc-update will remove all your changes.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:42:59 -0400
Ben Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why
--- brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both
files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and
see what is new and then modify one of the files. For
example, with make.conf I keep my old and move stuff from
the new one to the
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:00:59AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote:
Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
system will break. Also, when you modify your make.conf
file you don't want it overwritten mindlessly. If you
notice etc-update will remove all your changes.
brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
system will break.
Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
/etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab;
Unless it's a file that I edit and change I let etc-update
handle it. I'm not familiar with this file but if you
haven't messed with it or a program you use hasn't change
it then give it to etc-update.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 01:09:51 -0700 (PDT)
Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok...
So
You're welcome!
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 05:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both
files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through
and
After all they are almost always updated
If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will
mess it up. Every update that etc-update has wanted to do
has wanted to replace my /dev/... with /dev/BOOT and take
out my stuff and that would sure hose the system. Other
than running it through an editor manually I don't know of
*agrees with brett*
if I haven't modified the file, I leave all the work up to etc-update :) it
isn't much effort looking out for the 4 or 5 files you need to worry about.
Ross.
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:33, brett holcomb wrote:
If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will
Except for base-layout updates which seem to include
/etc/hosts G but even then it was only a few!
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:37:12 +0200
Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*agrees with brett*
if I haven't modified the file, I leave all the work up
to etc-update :) it
isn't much effort looking out
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:33:46AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote:
If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will
mess it up. Every update that etc-update has wanted to do
has wanted to replace my /dev/... with /dev/BOOT and take
out my stuff and that would sure hose the system. Other
Yes,
I replied long ago saying that I now see how to use etc-update correctly. Thanks
though.
Maybe now you see why I started the other thread about etc-update. I've actually
been able to
look through the various files that need updating and feel like I need to be a
programmer to
understand
There's a lot of talk that pops up in gentoo-dev regarding etc-update. For the
time being, etc-update (or dispath-conf for a little protection) is about the
best you'll get. Having said that, dispatch-conf *does* do automatic header
and white-space merging and can also be set to auto-merge
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:24:22 +0200
Gwendolyn van der Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ rest snipped ]
I guess the above is true for several other files. Any file that is
hard/dangerous to merge automatically should NOT be in portage, but
provided as an example or template instead. In some
On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:
brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
system will break.
Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
making the copying/editing part of the
--- Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a lot of talk that pops up in gentoo-dev regarding etc-update. For the
time being, etc-update (or dispath-conf for a little protection) is about the
best you'll get. Having said that, dispatch-conf *does* do automatic header
and white-space
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