Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread bob bob
h we live."   - Peter Cochrane From: SavageMindz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:57:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from gentoo.org ([204.126.2.42]) by mc5-f3.hotmai

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread SavageMindz
> Surely there is a better way to update shit.. possibly some sort of script > that compares the two files and only shows what is different between the > two.. that way we can make faster easier changes/decisions.. > Thats how it works currently. the etc-update script just diffs the two files a

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Terry Churchill
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:03, Joshua Banks wrote: > Hey Terry, > > Which option do you usually choose? > -1 > -3 > -5 I think it was -1, whichever one overwrites the current one with the new one. I scan the list first to make sure there's none that I do want to keep first though. HTH -- .~.

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Joshua Banks
Hey Terry, Which option do you usually choose? -1 -3 -5 ?? JBanks --- Terry Churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 08:23, bob bob wrote: > > > Surely there is a better way to update shit.. possibly some sort of script > > that compares the two files and only shows what is

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Lloyd D Budd
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 03:23, bob bob wrote: > Last night I did an emerge sync last night followed by a emerge -uD world > when it had finished i had 24 ._cfg_. type files that needed changing.. > This was a VERY laborious task to complete.. and made even more annoying by > the fact that some o

Re: [gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread Terry Churchill
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 08:23, bob bob wrote: > Surely there is a better way to update shit.. possibly some sort of script > that compares the two files and only shows what is different between the > two.. that way we can make faster easier changes/decisions.. That's exactly what etc-update does.

[gentoo-user] post emerge config changes

2003-09-15 Thread bob bob
Last night I did an emerge sync last night followed by a emerge -uD world when it had finished i had 24 ._cfg_. type files that needed changing.. This was a VERY laborious task to complete.. and made even more annoying by the fact that some of the cfg file it wanted me to change were no differ