I highly recommend using something like cfg-update because it handles the vast majority of the updating FOR you (which, frankly is the whole POINT of portage). Basically, if you haven't modified a cfg file, it will just update it for you, and it will merge comments, etc. There's also another tool called dispatch-conf, but I haven't tried that.
In any case, etc-update is terrible and is generally looked down upon by most on the gentoo forums
On 10/20/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:09:54PM -0400, David Zakar wrote:
> Gentoo ebuilds sometimes do lots of rather obscene stuff, like co'ing
> from the trunk of the project CVS and building that. I don't believe
> most packages do that, but after having had the unfortunate experience
> of having to deal with problems that arose from that kind of idiocy,
> I've never understood how anyone thinks Gentoo is a serious server OS.
>
> Parting shot: at least I can type "yum -y update" and be reasonably
> assured that my web server will be working afterwards. The whole "RPM
> sucks" thing is so 2003, Phil. :)
Admittedly, I am new to gentoo, and probably should have know better,
but I didn't realize that running `etc-update` would trash *everything*.
Thank god there wasn't an update to /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow...
- Rob
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Christopher Conroy
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