2. You're lucky. These are updates to config files and scripts so generally if you don't get the updates you haven't really updated your system. Run etc-update and carefully pay attention to what it wants to change. However, some files you should not update such as /etc/fstab and others. Etc-update will let you see what changes it's going to make and allow you to decide.
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
1) I notice some occasional mention of people continuing to use their systems while emerge is running. Intuitively, this seems like driving your car while mechanics are working on it. I shut down every X session and every text console except one root session running the actual emerge. Is this unnecessary? Are there any booby-traps to watch for if I want to use my system while "emerge --ask --deep --update --world" is running?
2) After a while I've found the messages (at the end of the emerge session) about config files, useless and rather annoying. I now execute
rm `find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*'`
whenever such a message shows up. No problems... yet. Is it a good idea, or have I just been lucky?
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