Where do you find this cfg-update?
Thanks.
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:27, you wrote:
IMO etc-update should make a backup copy of all files replaced
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On Thu Oct 23, 2003 at 06:55:11PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Where do you find this cfg-update?
Thanks.
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:27, you wrote:
IMO etc-update should make a backup copy of all files replaced
Rick
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Gentoo.org forums, under Documentation, Tips, Tricks.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622
On Thursday 23 October 2003 6:55 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Where do you find this cfg-update?
Thanks.
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:27, you wrote:
IMO etc-update should make a backup
Yes, thanks.
On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:58, you wrote:
On Thu Oct 23, 2003 at 06:55:11PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brett I. Holcomb
wrote:
Where do you find this cfg-update?
Thanks.
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:27, you wrote:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622
Hope
Not that I'm aware of. I keep backups on another system
and on tape so I can recover. I assume you've seen some
of the suggestions in this thread about other programs
that might make updating easier.
One thing I do is run emerge sync and then emerge -uDp on
system and world very frequently
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:49 am, brett holcomb wrote:
Not that I'm aware of. I keep backups on another system
and on tape so I can recover. I assume you've seen some
of the suggestions in this thread about other programs
that might make updating easier.
snips
If accidentally
Hi Donnie,
Thanks for your advice.
_ snip_
2) How to update ALL configuration files collectively/simultaneously
afterwords?
Run etc-update. Type the number of each file that shows up, and merge.
If you _know_ you have never edited any of the files left on the list,
you may choose to use
On 2003.10.21 02:17, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Donnie,
Thanks for your advice.
_ snip_
2) How to update ALL configuration files collectively/
simultaneously afterwords?
Run etc-update. Type the number of each file that shows up, and
merge.
If you _know_ you have never edited any of the files left
Hi seam
Thanks for your advice.
sean m. wrote:
- snip -
Run etc-update. Type the number of each file that shows up, and merge.
If you _know_ you have never edited any of the files left on the list,
you may choose to use the '-5' option.
I am not very clear of what the advice indicated then
At 05:24 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote:
I hesitate whether to proceed UPDATE as recommended if all config files
will be rewritten. Not only adding extra work, but the difficulty to me
is I am new to Gentoo only having it running for one (1) day. I am
inexperienced to re-fix them back if Gentoo
Hall Stevenson wrote:
Have you edited any files in /etc ?? The ones that will possibly get
updated you probably haven't touched. It won't overwrite files like
/etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hostname. It will often want to replace
/etc/make.conf, for example.
Again, when you run etc-update, it will
At 07:42 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote:
Hall Stevenson wrote:
Have you edited any files in /etc ?? The ones that will possibly get
updated you probably haven't touched. It won't overwrite files like
/etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hostname. It will often want to replace
/etc/make.conf, for example.
Again,
You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted to
replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing where
Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or APT, it always backs up
your current file(s) and appends a meaningful name to it.
I agree, If I had been a
Yes, you have to look at what it wants to update. If it's
a file you edit then see what it wants to change. I have
some on my list (make.conf, fstab) that I always do
manually. You can't just tell etc-update to run and let
it loose.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:42:29 +0100
Norm [EMAIL
At 10:42 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote:
Yes, you have to look at what it wants to update. If it's a file you edit
then see what it wants to change. I have some on my list (make.conf,
fstab) that I always do manually. You can't just tell etc-update to run
and let it loose.
There's a few files,
Hi Hall
- snip -
I hesitate whether to proceed UPDATE as recommended if all config
files will be rewritten. Not only adding extra work, but the
difficulty to me is I am new to Gentoo only having it running for one
(1) day. I am inexperienced to re-fix them back if Gentoo can't run
properly
At 11:29 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote:
Again, when you run etc-update, it will *LIST* all of the files it wants
to update. You could probably 'cat' that list to a file too.
Can I deselect some of the files LISTED?
Follow the prompts...
Hall
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:33:59 +0100 norm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted to
replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing where
Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or APT, it always backs up
your
At 12:54 PM 10/21/2003, you wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:33:59 +0100 norm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted to
replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing where
Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or
At 11:23 AM 10/21/2003, you wrote:
Off to Gentoo's bug submittal system to see if anything like this is
already listed
A search for etc-update turns up (18) results, many similar to what I'm
referring to...
Someone commented about *not* replacing files like /etc/fstab or /etc/issue
and the
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:42:18 -0400
brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, you have to look at what it wants to update. If it's
a file you edit then see what it wants to change. I have
some on my list (make.conf, fstab) that I always do
manually. You can't just tell etc-update to
Yes, but I haven't had much luck with that. At some time
I might go back and work with it some more.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:33:07 +0200
Andrej Kacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:42:18 -0400
brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, you have to look at what it wants to
Yes - look at what etc-update displays. It gives options
for updating all files automatically, selecting them one
at a time or skipping them.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:29:56 +0800
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Hall
Can I deselect some of the files LISTED?
Thanks
B.R.
Stephen
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:33:59 +0100, norm wrote:
You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted
to
replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing
where
Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or APT, it always
backs up
your current file(s) and appends a
For those interested, there's a great gui replacement script for etc-update on
the Gentoo forum by xentric (with screenshots). He helped me tremendously
getting it working, as my system was severely misconfigured, and I had
problems. He has updated it with some things we discovered which will
Michael Rasile wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:33:59 +0100, norm wrote:
You know, now that you mention is, I seem to recall that it wanted
to
replace mine once too. Luckily I caught it ! This is one thing
where
Gentoo's package system needs work. With RPM or APT, it always
backs up
your current
Michael Rasile wrote:
I agree with what someone said earlier, is
it really necessary to even offer to change /etc/fstab??
IMO etc-update should make a backup copy of all files replaced
Rick
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* Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-10-21 13:18]:
Someone commented about *not* replacing files like /etc/fstab or /etc/issue
and the response was that we sometimes need to merge new information. I
guess I have a different definition of merge... To me, merge would
imply add to, not
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 15:39, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
IMO etc-update should make a backup copy of all files replaced
Rick
You can do this with two small changes. First, add the --backup option
to mv_opts in /etc/etc-update.conf. Note: The default backup option will
create a single backup named
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:14:46PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Michael Rasile wrote:
It's funny that you mention that. I'm not a newbie to Linux but I was
to gentoo some months back when I did my first update and was told
(nicely, of course! :-))to do an etc-update. Well, I never dreamed
IMO etc-update should make a backup copy of all files replaced
Rick
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Rick,
This is one of the features (among others) of using the cfg-update with the
xxdiff gui
A more novice-friendly tool would probably benefit a lot of users. But
it should be as an additional option for updating files as well as
the current etc-update, not instead of it. Seeing as so many people are
keen for such a tool it shouldn't be too long before someone writes one.
Maybe the
Hi Brett,
Thanks for your advice.
If accidentally updating a /etc/~config file, is there any record to
trace it, i.e. any record showing config files updated.
B.R.
Stephen
brett holcomb wrote:
Yes - look at what etc-update displays. It gives options for updating
all files automatically,
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 01:25, Stephen Liu wrote:
My questions are;
1) How to run update portage? Whether
#emerge -u portage
will do the job
Yes. Even 'emerge portage' will.
2) How to update ALL configuration files collectively/simultaneously
afterwords?
Run etc-update. Type the
so I got the network running in gentoo finally (the
original e100 didn't work in the actual distro but only in the installation so I
installed the driver from my motherboard CD). I installed it from stage3...how
can I update my system? (bootstrap,packages,...the works!) ?
Tnx
Jure Turk wrote:
so I got the network running in gentoo finally (the original e100 didn't
work in the actual distro but only in the installation so I installed
the driver from my motherboard CD). I installed it from stage3...how can
I update my system? (bootstrap,packages,...the works!) ?
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