[gentoo-user] Re: Things that can be improved
Enrico Weigelt wrote: thanks for the tip to dispatch-conf. Again learned something new :) This is what I was just looking for. I keep my /etc as a Subversion working directory. With an additional script, file ownership and permissions are stored in an SVN property. That way, I can always see what has changed after an etc-update (or even an emerge, sometimes files are moved around), and revert changes if I screwed up. Well, all the nice features of a revision control system. BTW: if you change some config file by hand, it's seems wise to add some comment, so you always get a hint in the diff. That would be placed in a commit message. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Things that can be improved
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:12:13 -0400, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first thing that I'd change is etc-update or dispatch-conf. I'd suggest to create some kind of tool like dpkg-reconfigure in Debian. I don't know anything about dpkg-reconfigure, so I can't really comment on this. But one thing I really do like about gentoo is that I *can* go modify configuration files directly, without worrying about some distribution tool clobbering my changes, or choking on something it wasn't setup to deal with. This is one of the things that drove me from SuSE. I would really object to some kind of configuration file configurator app. Agree wholeheartedly. I want to learn and use Linux (well, Gentoo Linux :-) )- not some distribution-dependent GUI(s). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
