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; nano -w /etc/fstab). Now I throw away new versions of /etc/fstab, that may include important comments or even important definitions such as for devfs or sysfs. I used to merge using Emacs ediff, but found it to quite cumbersome to page through long configuration files and deciding what to keep and what to merge. 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 cases one could support optional configuration files that are read if they exist (if [ -f /etc/blah.local ]; then source /etc/blah.local; ...). My two Eurocents. Gwendolyn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
