I'm not saying that, by default, etc-update should update all files automatically but being able to tell it to update all files that I know I haven't manually changed would be a good thing.
Jason
Ian Truelsen wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:53:00 -0500 "Todd Punderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
True enough, but isn't there some way that we could track whether aBlindly 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
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 :)
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