Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

Thanks Josh. I will look at "cfg-update". Best Regards. 2008/12/4 Josh Saddler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Song Ma wrote: > > I tried "dispatch-conf" and "etc-update". Here are two major differences > > from my tool: > > > > 1. For desktop user, my tool will invoke GUI based "kdiff3" to do diff > > an

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

Song Ma wrote: > I tried "dispatch-conf" and "etc-update". Here are two major differences > from my tool: > > 1. For desktop user, my tool will invoke GUI based "kdiff3" to do diff > and merge files if the user installed the "kdiff3". And for remote login > user or the user without "kdiff3", the

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

I tried "dispatch-conf" and "etc-update". Here are two major differences from my tool: 1. For desktop user, my tool will invoke GUI based "kdiff3" to do diff and merge files if the user installed the "kdiff3". And for remote login user or the user without "kdiff3", the tool will just get the norm

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

Thanks guys. I didn't realize there are such tools existed already. 2008/12/4 Cheng Renquan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Song Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > With Gentoo if the user runs "emerge --update --newuse --deep world", the > > config file under "/et

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Song Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > With Gentoo if the user runs "emerge --update --newuse --deep world", the > config file under "/etc" may be updated and get the new config file named as > "._cfg_", for example, "._cfg_ntp.conf". Normally I wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

2008/12/4 Song Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > With Gentoo if the user runs "emerge --update --newuse --deep world", the > config file under "/etc" may be updated and get the new config file named as > "._cfg_", for example, "._cfg_ntp.conf". Normally I will > compare this newly upda

[gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

Hi, With Gentoo if the user runs "emerge --update --newuse --deep world", the config file under "/etc" may be updated and get the new config file named as "._cfg_", for example, "._cfg_ntp.conf". Normally I will compare this newly updated config file with my existing one, then decide