On Montag 22 Februar 2010, daid kahl wrote: > >> > > > On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial > >> > > > changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably > >> > > > the majority, won't be flaged at all. > >> > > > >> > > so does cfg-update.... > >> > > >> > Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and > >> > I give it another try, but I don't really get on with it and always > >> > go back to conf-update. There's nothing specific wrong with it, I > >> > just prefer (or am used to) conf-update. > >> > > >> > I expect that if I were still using etc-update or dispatch-conf I > >> > would welcome it with open arms though. > > Yay, thanks for the ideas. dispatch-conf was a welcome change from > etc-update, so this must be the next step. And just in time too, I > updated to ~x86 last week, and I left around the 11 config files that > need more than just hand waving to deal with (looks like important > changes, but I did modifications as well to those cases). > > >> You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and > >> etc-update that bad then? > > > > out of touch would be rolling your own config update tool, like me ;) > > It hasn't changed much since I started using Gentoo... > > > > -- > > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> > > Sharing is caring! Can we try it? More importantly, would we want to? > > I'm wondering if some of these config manglers have configs > themselves, or some place to keep track of the configs I want like red > flagged to not get accidentially overwritten (sorry I didn't read the > man pages yet because I didn't get too screwed without), because I > want to keep track of the ones I edit other than some text file or my > memory "oh yeah, vim I hated the auto-line wrapping...where's that > backup from last week?" > > ~daid
well, cfg-update keeps a backup. It detects manual edits and try to resolve conflicts resulting from that automatically. Which works surprisingly well. If it can not resolve them itself, it opens a diff app you set in its config - like kdiff3, sdiff, beediff... etc. You do your changes, save, quit, cfg-update does the rest - and next time remembers what you did.
