On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:53:00 -0500 "Todd Punderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Blindly merging new config files is extremely dangerous. As much of a > pain as it is, it is of utmost importance that you take the time to > review the changes and be sure they make sense for your system. You > surely wouldn't want your make.conf to just be overwritten. Not > updating or blindly updating the files in /etc is probably one of the > top reasons for system problems. There is a nice new feature that will > automatically update insignificant changes to the config files. Check > out /etc/etc-update.conf. Todd > True enough, but isn't there some way that we could track whether a config file has been altered? It seems to me that, except in very odd cases, a config file that has not been altered could just be updated automatically. Of course, I may be biased by having just updated to X 4.3 and had to cruise through 75 config files in etc-update. I think I wore out the colon and q keys :) -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org PGP key available at: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org/pgp.html and http://pgp.mit.edu (search 'ihtruelsen') -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
