On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:53:21 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:

> > Have you enabled rcs in the config? This makes it backup the changes,
> > so you can roll back.
> 
> No, I just used it sort of blindly...

Not the best way to operate Gentoo :(

> I was under the conception that the archiving mechanism did a backup
> of all of etc but apparently that is not the case.

It archives what you change. So if you copied your settings into the new
config file and then let dispatch-conf replace the old one with it, the
old settings will be archived.
 

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