[gentoo-user] targeted donation/barter system? (was: donations to what?)

2003-06-29 Thread Matthew Gatto
Man I hate to be an email nazi, but people continue to do this, so here goes (This is not directed at you personally, many people on this list do this): Please don't top post. If you are not replying to a message, start a new thread. If you are replying (even peripherally), practice proper

[gentoo-user] Re: How to make a minimum backup?

2003-06-14 Thread Matthew Gatto
* Rasmus Wiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03.06.10 18:15]: Hi. I'm one of those guys who live on the edge (i.e. I don't back things up), but I'll soon send my laptop away for repair (the CPU has fried the fan bearings so they sound awful) so I'd like to do some kind of minimum backup. I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update problem

2003-04-02 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:20:20PM -0700, Kent Jantz wrote: Ok, I will do that. I'm just worried that this is going to be a reoccurring problem in which case I guess I'm screwed. you could just add the directory the problem files are in to the CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, and they will be

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update

2003-03-11 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:00:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still not a good thing. There could be some new option in the config file that needs setting. Anyway, with the exception of the XFree True, but that is not relevant to the very reasonable notion that default config files that

[gentoo-user] Re: updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:20:30AM -0600, Alec Berryman wrote: Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, just like emerge? This could make it much more easy to merge files. It's not etc-update that doesn't do color, it's diff. Check out your /etc/etc-update.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:37:33AM -0800, Spundun Bhatt wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:18, Matthew Gatto wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:20:30AM -0600, Alec Berryman wrote: Is there a reason why etc-update doesn't use colors in the output, just like emerge? This could make it much

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: updating config files

2003-03-05 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:12:23PM -0500, Matthew Gatto wrote: There is also colordiff, if you ain't into vim. It's a tiny little wrapper on diff with the same syntax as diff and therefore appropriate for use in the etc-update.conf. I tried emerging it right now though I havent

Re: [gentoo-user] Symmetrical Vs Asymmetrical GPG Encryption

2003-02-19 Thread Matthew Gatto
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:39:01AM +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: That being the case, I'd still like to use symmetrical encryption. But now I have to find a way to automate the entry of the passphrase in a backup script. why bother? why not just use a keypair (asymmetrical), and backup the keypair