On Wednesday, 29 May 2019 23:23:58 BST Dale wrote: > n952...@web.de wrote: > > And, what are the consequences that I'm suffering, that I haven't done > > that before, for over a year?> > >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2019 um 23:55 Uhr > >> Von: n952...@web.de > >> An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >> Betreff: updating /etc/package.accept_keywords > >> > >> I have many files like ._cfg0000_package.accept_keywords. > >> Is the right way to handle this to do something like: > >> > >> sort -u ._cfg????_package.accept_keywords >| package.accept_keywords > > Look into etc-update, dispatch-conf and other commands that help with > updating those. I admit, I'm bad to let them sit to because I usually > manually update important stuff. I don't wait that long tho. Keep in > mind, there is a small chance that a bad config could result in > something not working when you reboot or not being able to completely > boot at all. It depends on what files are not updated. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
I always run etc-update or dispatch-conf to see what the changes in default config files may be and invariably accept or merge the changes with my version of the config files each time. If I am in a rush and the changes are not trivial, I will leave this for a day in the near future and avoid restarting the service affected. However, I would not leave a remote server in this state in case an unintended reboot causes some critical service to fail to restart, e.g. network, sshd, etc. -- Regards, Mick
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