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 > seems to be > "hush-hush".
I don't understand what you're trying to achieve. etc-update already allows you to see the differences and manually sort them out line by line or (my preference) in vimdiff mode. Only crazy people use the option for etc-update to automatically fix the files, and they end up with a broken system. > > Again, "My Goal", to manually update the files without the use of "ect-update". > > > > How to do this correctly I'm unsure of and want confirmation of, please. Why? Sure if you want to you can take all those files it says are changed and look at both versions with diff or vimdiff or whatever.. but etc-update calls these progams for you anyway. > > ********************************************************** > > > > At this point, I'm just manually "diff"ing each file, one by one. (Any suggestions > > on using > > "diff" > > and "cp" in a better way than I'm using will be helpful & appreciated as well.) > > > > ********************************************************** etc-update *is* the better way. :) > > At this point, (1)I know logically that I've never messed with this file and, > > (2)its obvious > > that > > I want the new file in replace of the old one. Not only is it obvious but I was > > told so: > > > > Quote: > > * NOTICE: PLEASE *REPLACE* your make.globals. All user changes to variables > > * in make.globals should be placed in make.conf. DO NOT MODIFY make.globals. > > > > * Feature additions are noted in help and make.conf descriptions. Update > > * them using 'etc-update' please. Maintaining current configs for portage > > * and other system packages is fairly important for the continued health > > * of your system. > > End Quote: > > > > > > So would the correct thing to do in this (Specific) case, being inside the /etc > > directory, too: > > > > 1) > > bash-2.05b# cp ._cfg0000_make.globals make.globals > > > > 2) > > bash-2.05b# rm ._cfg0000_make.globals Yes, if you have never edited a config file and now you have to merge in new changes then usually what you want to do is just take the update. And etc-update has an option for doing this. > > Now my other question is: > > > > Assuming that this were the only file that had differences (hypothectically > > speaking), WHAT, if > > anything do I need to do to next to let Gentoo know I've made the changes manually > > instead of > > using "etc-update"? Again, correct my thinking of this where you see fit...if it > > fits.. :P Removing the ._cfg file is enough to make portage forget about it, I think. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
