> > How do I recognize "trivial" changes? Only upt to 3 lines affected? > > Then there are no trivial changes;-) > > There aren't any trivial changes! If a 1-line change can bring your > machine down, then EVERY single line must be chacked with the greatest > of care.
Spoken like someone who recently installed gentoo, and never had to look at a bunch of files where the only thing that had changed was the CVS header. I'm quite pleased with the automerging support. > > Quite often I get confused which side is old (left?) and new, > > respectively. > > My problem too! Then use a different diff command. You can change it in etc-update.conf. I don't have any suggestions but there have to be more out there. To the person who said -5 is useless, I disagree that. Every time I do an upgrade of XFree there's a buch of X config files modified that I don't care about. I merge the files I've modified, then -5 the rest of them. To the person (people) who think /etc/fstab never changes, older versions of baselayout required tmpfs mounted at /mnt/.init.d/ . New versions (maybe not in stable yet) don't. How do you suggest those changes get pointed out to the user? You're complaining that the automated tools don't do what you want them to--and now people are suggesting that fstab get run through *sed*?? Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. If you don't like etc-update, edit the files manually. If you have a concrete suggestion for improving etc-update, feel free to say something. Etc-update is by no means perfect, but I don't see an obvious way to improve it. You might try the menu-based mode, which has been in development for quite some time. That will, at least, fix the "too many files to fit on the screen" problem. -Heschi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
