Talk:HOWTO etc-update
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An issue I see with etc-update is large time consumed by pointlessly manually checking already perfectly configured files just to make sure that the format of the config files hasn't changed in the new emerge'd version of the software.
I am more concerned with accidently stomping on working configuration files. It seems a clean solution would be to have a CVS backup of /etc, automatically used by etc-update, so that users can retrieve the last good version. I consider myself a reasonably knowledgeable Linux user, but I've made all the bad mistakes, like accepting an updated /etc/fstab, and only past experience allowed me to crawl back from a borked system.
- Please take a look at : TIP_dispatch-conf which already does this (see the rcs functionality, where rcs is precursor to cvs)
Yeah, read the how-to before running etc-update. I had 30 conf files to merge and I just accepted "merge all" and, as far as I can tell, etc-update set my conf files back to my starting point. No X, no udev, ...
