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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with gentoo?
From:       "Oliver Rutherfurd" <fruhstuck () rutherfurd ! net>
Date:       2003-01-10 15:33:50
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Hall" <brihall@pcisys.net>
> To: "Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de>
> Cc: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>; <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with
gentoo?
>

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:10:57PM +0100, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> > Bengt Gorden <bengan@sunet.se> writes:
> >
> > > Kai Großjohann wrote:
> > >
> > > I maintain a RCS-repository for all the changed files in /etc. It
> > > works well for me.
> >
> > Great.  I would really appreciate something with that effect to be
> > the default, though.
>
> Seconded!

Hi,

I've written an equivalent to "etc-update" which creates backups of the
config files before replacing them. Don't know how this compares to keeping
an RCS repository, but I figured I'd mention it in case there was any
interest.

It can be found here:

http://www.rutherfurd.net/gentoo/cfghelper/

-Ollie
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http://www.rutherfurd.net/


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