Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update broke

2005-03-29 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Grant wrote: I've been emerging world today and I think one of the packages I updated was a diff package. Now when I run etc-update the only info I get from choosing to interactively merge the update with the original is something like: Showing differences between /etc/X11/rstart/rstartd.real and

[gentoo-user] etc-update broke

2005-03-28 Thread Grant
I've been emerging world today and I think one of the packages I updated was a diff package. Now when I run etc-update the only info I get from choosing to interactively merge the update with the original is something like: Showing differences between /etc/X11/rstart/rstartd.real and

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update broke

2005-03-28 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:53:54 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been emerging world today and I think one of the packages I updated was a diff package. Now when I run etc-update the only info I get from choosing to interactively merge the update with the original is something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update broke

2005-03-28 Thread Grant
I've been emerging world today and I think one of the packages I updated was a diff package. Now when I run etc-update the only info I get from choosing to interactively merge the update with the original is something like: Showing differences between /etc/X11/rstart/rstartd.real and

[gentoo-user] etc-update

2005-02-07 Thread Tres Melton
Frank, I saw your post where you said: BTW: I choose to never run these silly update scripts. Now I look run etc-update only to see where gentoo placed replacements and cancel. Then having a look what will change and do this (if required) by hand. I have a script called find-new-configs

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2005-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 01:03:01 -0700, Tres Melton wrote: I have a script called find-new-configs that has the single line: find `portageq config_protect` -iname '._cfg_*' 2 /dev/null and that works well for finding them. I also have another one that saves all of the config files

RE: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult? - meld

2005-01-17 Thread Daevid Vincent
: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult? Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:29:44 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: I know dispatch-conf does the same thing, but it does it a different way, and I don't understand the output (it displays diffs, for example, in such a way that I can't recognize which is which, and I don't easily see the commands to

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:34, Holly Bostick wrote: On the other hand, I can't understand how to use dispatch-conf at all. Why would that be the case? The way you described etc-update, to me it seems the same as dispatch-conf. I know dispatch-conf does the same thing, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:34, Holly Bostick wrote: On the other hand, I can't understand how to use dispatch-conf at all. Why would that be the case? The way you described etc-update, to me it seems the same as dispatch-conf. Admitedly there are minor differences, but both of it does the same

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht wrote: I cannot understand it either. It says things like left/right but shows things top/bottom. There's a (vertical) line separating the two diff outputs. One is on the left (the original) and one is on the right (the proposed changes). So left/right refers to, do you want to use

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
I use dispatch-conf since I got introduced to it. It's has Colordiffs and it was RCS for file-revs. me tto but also etc-update has colordiff: # vim-users: you CAN use vimdiff for diff_command. (see NOTE_1) diff_command=colordiff -uN %file1 %file2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Rick Lapp
Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help either. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Alec
Rick Lapp wrote: Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help either. Any suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list man dispatch-conf --

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Knecht
I cannot understand it either. It says things like left/right but shows things top/bottom. I never know what it's doing so I quit, save files, let it do the replacement and then compare the files again to put my edits back in. Worse I jsut don't do the update. My cups configuration is waiting for

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:10, Mark Knecht wrote: I have tried dispatch-conf. I don't really remember how it went other than I had trouble there too so I'm still using etc-update in my 'very, very careful' mode... I use dispatch-conf since I got introduced to it. It's has Colordiffs and it

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread purslow
050105 Rick Lapp wrote: Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help either. Any suggestions? you are using Gvim to show/edit the diffs, aren't you ...

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Rick Lapp
No, tell me more about Gvim? On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 050105 Rick Lapp wrote: Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread purslow
050105 Rick Lapp wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 050105 Rick Lapp wrote: Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update difficult?

2005-01-05 Thread Grant
Is it me or does anyone else find etc-update difficult to do more than just Replace original with update. I find the interactive menu not friendly at all. man etc-update is of no help either. Any suggestions? you are using Gvim to show/edit the diffs, aren't you ... ? No, tell me

[gentoo-user] etc-update breaks on gnobots2.soundlist

2003-10-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, after some choices and replaces i become this: [...] description[zh_TW]=éé End of differences between /etc/sound/events/gnobots2.soundlist and /etc/sound/events/._cfg_gnobots2.soundlist 1) Replace original with update 2) Delete update, keeping original as is 3) Interactively merge

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update breaks on gnobots2.soundlist

2003-10-11 Thread Bryan Feir
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:55:34PM +0200, Denny Schierz wrote: hi, after some choices and replaces i become this: [...] description[zh_TW]= End of differences between /etc/sound/events/gnobots2.soundlist and /etc/sound/events/._cfg_gnobots2.soundlist 1) Replace original with update

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-21 Thread Terje Kvernes
brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up. on a unix-system mostly anything you do blindly, as root, will mess up your system. and, on a unix-system, with your eyes open, that mess can be fixed. Every update that

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that any time there's questions about etc-update everyone seems to be hush-hush. I've layed out what my goal is, what I've

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread blade-
Only thing i can say is instead of cp new.cfg old.cfg rm old.cfg u could just mv old.cfg new.cfg Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Ben Sparks
why not use etc-update? seems to save much hassle and time for me. On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 02:30, Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 13:49, Joshua Banks wrote: Just fishing here..+ acouple of questions. ** My Goal in this posting: Is to learn how-to correctly manually update the files without the use of ect-update. Well, the correct way

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:30:14PM -0700, Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that any time there's questions about etc-update everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks for the replies everyone. All the suggestions have helped. JBanks --- Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:30:14PM -0700, Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Ok... So do I goto the list when I'm unsure about differences in files that I'm unsure of. Some of them are common sense type differences but others I'm unsure of like dispatch-conf.conf The new file doesn't have the header at the beginning and there are all sorts of changes that are beyond

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..[Solved]

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Feel pretty silly now :p etc-update Was staring me in the face the whole time begging me to use it...CORRECTLY...that is.. :D JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and see what is new and then modify one of the files. For example, with make.conf I keep my old and move stuff from the new one to the old. However, with the last baselayout

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Also, when you modify your make.conf file you don't want it overwritten mindlessly. If you notice etc-update will remove all your changes. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:42:59 -0400 Ben Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
--- brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and see what is new and then modify one of the files. For example, with make.conf I keep my old and move stuff from the new one to the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:00:59AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote: Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Also, when you modify your make.conf file you don't want it overwritten mindlessly. If you notice etc-update will remove all your changes.

RE: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab;

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Unless it's a file that I edit and change I let etc-update handle it. I'm not familiar with this file but if you haven't messed with it or a program you use hasn't change it then give it to etc-update. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 01:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... So

[gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous. The only files that I'm familiar with are the ones that I touched

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
You're welcome! On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 05:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and After all they are almost always updated

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up. Every update that etc-update has wanted to do has wanted to replace my /dev/... with /dev/BOOT and take out my stuff and that would sure hose the system. Other than running it through an editor manually I don't know of

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
My rule of thumb - if I haven't touched it myself then I turn etc-update loose. Usually it's hosts, make.conf, fstab and files that you have to edit and setup that I do manually. Most of the files below you can let etc-update have it's way. I don't know about dispatch-conf. On Wed, 17 Sep

RE: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
Joshua Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous. I agree. The only files that

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Ross
*agrees with brett* if I haven't modified the file, I leave all the work up to etc-update :) it isn't much effort looking out for the 4 or 5 files you need to worry about. Ross. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:33, brett holcomb wrote: If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Except for base-layout updates which seem to include /etc/hosts G but even then it was only a few! On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:37:12 +0200 Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *agrees with brett* if I haven't modified the file, I leave all the work up to etc-update :) it isn't much effort looking out

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Davide Brini
On 14:27, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, Joshua Banks wrote: 1) /etc/dispatch-conf.conf /etc/._cfg_dispatch-conf.conf Don't know, I don't use it. 2) /etc/issue /etc/._cfg_issue I kept mine, but if you replace it with the suggested one it won't hurt too much. This file contains the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:33:46AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote: If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up. Every update that etc-update has wanted to do has wanted to replace my /dev/... with /dev/BOOT and take out my stuff and that would sure hose the system. Other

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Yes, I replied long ago saying that I now see how to use etc-update correctly. Thanks though. Maybe now you see why I started the other thread about etc-update. I've actually been able to look through the various files that need updating and feel like I need to be a programmer to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
There's a lot of talk that pops up in gentoo-dev regarding etc-update. For the time being, etc-update (or dispath-conf for a little protection) is about the best you'll get. Having said that, dispatch-conf *does* do automatic header and white-space merging and can also be set to auto-merge

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. You don't need to be a programmer at all - that's much harder. What you

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:24:22 +0200 Gwendolyn van der Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ rest snipped ] I guess the above is true for several other files. Any file that is hard/dangerous to merge automatically should NOT be in portage, but provided as an example or template instead. In some

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and making the copying/editing part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Ian Tindale
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 3:50 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. You

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 18 September 2003 00:08, Ian Tindale wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 3:50 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a lot of talk that pops up in gentoo-dev regarding etc-update. For the time being, etc-update (or dispath-conf for a little protection) is about the best you'll get. Having said that, dispatch-conf *does* do automatic header and white-space

[gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-16 Thread Joshua Banks
Just fishing here..+ acouple of questions. ** My Goal in this posting: Is to learn how-to correctly manually update the files without the use of ect-update. How to do this correctly, I'm unsure of so far. Being new I want to take the time

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update not showing differences

2003-08-20 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Hi Petri! Did you by any chance change anything in /etc/etc-update.conf? There is a line there diff_command=diff -uN %file1 %file2 Check if it is commented out (having a # character in front of it). On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:14:47 +0300 Petri Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I run

[gentoo-user] etc-update not showing differences

2003-08-17 Thread Petri Lehtonen
Hi, When I run etc-update it no longer shows the differences between the original and the update. Showing differences between /etc/init.d/keymaps and /etc/init.d/._cfg_keymaps 1) Replace original with update 2) Delete update, keeping original as is 3) Interactively merge original with update

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Sean Johnson
I don't know how feasible it'd be, but I think if the files that are getting updated could be contextually grouped that that could help quite a bit. So instead of having the list of 25 config files, there are sections A B and C where A is something like system files, be very careful here, B is

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread David Mallwitz
On Sunday 03 August 2003 05:36 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: I'd like some sort of flag system which says to etc-update: I've chosen to alter this file myself before, at some point in time or I've never touched this file in my life before, in fact, I didn't know it even existed. Of course, it's

[gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Stephane Brossier
Hi, I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I should run etc-update to merge some files. I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted some of my config files such as /etc/fstab. The result is that I cannot boot gentoo anymore. Pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 02 August 2003 21:23, Stephane Brossier wrote: snip # # noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 August 2003 22:23, Stephane Brossier wrote: Hi, I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I should run etc-update to merge some files. I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Cal Evans
Very carefully. Like any other tool that can affect how you machine runs you should make sure you understand WHAT the tool will do before actually do it. In the case of the -5 option, I would ignore it if I were you. My $.02 worth, =C= * * Cal Evans * http://www.christianperformer.com * Stay

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Heschi Kreinick
forget the space between noauto, noatime and all will be well, do this on every line. [snip] none/dev/sh tmpfs defaults0 0 Also, this should be /dev/shm, not /dev/sh, I believe. Not sure if this will be a problem, but things could get wierd if you don't fix it.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 02 August 2003 21:40, Heschi Kreinick wrote: forget the space between noauto, noatime and all will be well, do this on every line. [snip] none/dev/sh tmpfs defaults0 0 Also, this should be /dev/shm, not /dev/sh, I believe. Not sure if this

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Sami Ntnen
On Saturday 02 August 2003 23:51, Kees Bergwerf wrote: Op zaterdag 2 augustus 2003 22:23, schreef Stephane Brossier: I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted some of my config files such as /etc/fstab. The result is that I cannot boot gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:51, Kees Bergwerf wrote: Op zaterdag 2 augustus 2003 22:23, schreef Stephane Brossier: I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted some of my config files such as /etc/fstab. The result is that I cannot boot gentoo anymore.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread David Friggens
* Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-02 15:39]: * On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:51, Kees Bergwerf wrote: * Op zaterdag 2 augustus 2003 22:23, schreef Stephane Brossier: I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted some of my config files such as

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Steven Elling
On Saturday 02 August 2003 15:23, Stephane Brossier wrote: Hi, I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I should run etc-update to merge some files. I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted some of my config files such as

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 03 August 2003 14:03, Steven Elling wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2003 15:23, Stephane Brossier wrote: Hi, I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I should run etc-update to merge some files. I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files,

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-02 Thread Steven Elling
On Sunday 03 August 2003 00:15, Jason Stubbs wrote: Albeit this is only a minor change, but major changes could take place. If those changes are made available through portage then there is no need for any user to be subscribed to a mailing list, scan forums, etc. to be notified of the

[gentoo-user] etc-update problem

2003-04-01 Thread Kent Jantz
Look at this: bash-2.05b# etc-update Scanning Configuration files... The following is the list of files which need updating, each configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files. 1) /etc/X11/serverconfig/.directory /etc/X11/serverconfig/._cfg_.directory 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update problem

2003-04-01 Thread Alan
Replace the question marks with garbage. This is actually better then when I tried to update other selections with etc-update, all I get with those is a display full of garbage characters and then the xterm window locks up on Me. I guess I should be happy etc-update terminated before it

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update problem

2003-04-01 Thread Kent Jantz
It doesn't appear to have changed but that file had garbage in it before I changed it: [__section_info__] description=Mailcheck description[ar]=Ù^Áحص اÙ^ÄبرÙ^Êد description[be]=Ð^ßÑ^ÀавеÑ^Àка поÑ^ÈÑ^ÂÑ^Ë description[bg]=Ð^ßÑ^ÀовеÑ^Àка на поÑ^ÉаÑ^Âа description[ca]=Avís

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update problem

2003-04-01 Thread Alan
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Kent Jantz wrote: It doesn't appear to have changed but that file had garbage in it before I changed it: [snip] In any event if the above were the norm it doesn't explain why etc-update gets an error and quits before any changes are made. Some of

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update problem

2003-04-01 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 06:43 pm, Kent Jantz wrote: It doesn't appear to have changed but that file had garbage in it before I changed it: The garbage as you refer to it, is foreing language; not everyone speaks English you know [__section_info__] description=Mailcheck

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update problem

2003-04-01 Thread Kent Jantz
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. Thanks, Kent On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:48:38 -0800 Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Kent Jantz wrote: It doesn't appear to have changed

[gentoo-user] etc-update

2003-03-06 Thread Jason Giangrande
Is there a way to use etc-update to update all config files at once, either merge or replace? The manpage didn't have anything and doing them one at a time is a huge pain. Thanks, -- -Jason Giangrande giangrande.org - http://www.giangrande.org http://www.giangrande.org/ Dog's I View -

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2003-03-06 Thread Todd Punderson
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] etc-update Is there a way to use etc-update to update all config files at once, either merge or replace? The manpage didn't have anything and doing them one at a time is a huge pain. Thanks, -- -Jason Giangrande

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2003-03-06 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:53:00 -0500 Todd Punderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blindly merging new config files is extremely dangerous. As much of a pain as it is, it is of utmost importance that you take the time to review the changes and be sure they make sense for your system. You surely

RE: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2003-03-06 Thread Balaji Srinivasan
directory would also help. This way in case things do go wrong we still have access to the old files. Balaji -Original Message- From: Jason Giangrande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2003-03-06 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:31:23 -0800 Balaji Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way these conflicts could be reduced is by separating out sections in config files that will most probably be modified by the user and those which are not. For example the USE directive and the CFLAGS directive

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

2003-03-06 Thread gentoo
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 upgrade groan, we're not talking about a lot of time reviewing config files. The longest I've ever spent other than the XFree upgrade was five minutes. And that

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update oddity

2003-02-25 Thread nealbirch
Matt Tucker wrote: -- nealbirch [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: oh wow wish I had known about this a couple of weeks ago when I had to merge dozens of updates... is there a way to pull the files into emacs to use emacs diff function? Yes, but it can be .. complicated. I'm using the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update oddity

2003-02-24 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Joe Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: Automerge functionality for trivial changes is also cool :-) True. I've been wondering how people feel about automerge for non-trivial changes, though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update oddity

2003-02-24 Thread nealbirch
Joe Stone wrote: hi! On Monday 24 February 2003 05:07, Matt Tucker wrote: From /etc/etc-update.conf: # mode - 0 for text, 1 for menu (support incomplete) # note that you need dev-util/dialog installed mode=0 As I recall, the menu mode doesn't really work, so I'm a little surpised you have it

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update oddity

2003-02-23 Thread Matt Tucker
-- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: on my old gentoo install i type etc-update and there is a kind of ncurses gui app appears. according to qpkg -f etc-update is from portage 2.0.46-r12 In my new gentoo install, it comes up in an older style wihich scrolls off the screen. via the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update oddity

2003-02-23 Thread Joe Stone
hi! On Monday 24 February 2003 05:07, Matt Tucker wrote: From /etc/etc-update.conf: # mode - 0 for text, 1 for menu (support incomplete) # note that you need dev-util/dialog installed mode=0 As I recall, the menu mode doesn't really work, so I'm a little surpised you have it

[gentoo-user] etc-update make.globals

2003-02-22 Thread el lodger
I just downgraded portage from 2.0.47-r2 to 2.0.46-r12. etc-update lists 1)/etc/make.globals Now I know we are not supposed to edit make.globals and don't ever recall seeing it come up in etc-update. We should edit make.conf instead to make changes in make.global. porc2 root # etc-update Scanning

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update make.globals

2003-02-22 Thread Carl Hudkins
On Saturday 22 February 2003 21:42, el lodger wrote: As you can see most of the changes are minor. FEATURES is commented in my make.conf. I just use the system defaults. RSYNC_TIMEOUT can be simply commented as well. That leaves only the header line to change.Should I replace the original

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update make.globals

2003-02-22 Thread Brandon Low
Really the only time you'll see make.globals appear is when you've downgraded portage as you just have. It is quite alrigth in this case to keep the new or the old make.globals, either one will be quite acceptable. I tend to keep the one from the portage I'm downgrading from in this