Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Svoboda
* A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-07 18:51]: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >With vimdiff how do yo make the actual changes? Can you somehow > > tell it to apply certain lines from file2 to file1 or do you have to > > copy and paste by hand? > > If there are minor change

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I'll put in a plug for "meld" if you're like me and non-masochistic. It's an > X-windows application and is as simple as point & click. Yeah, but that's no use on a server without X now is it? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: >With vimdiff how do yo make the actual changes? Can you somehow > tell it to apply certain lines from file2 to file1 or do you have to > copy and paste by hand? If there are minor changes, you can directly edit the update then save, quit and merge the u

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:03:06AM -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, John wrote: > > > This email address is being abandoned due to the sick amount of junk mail I > > receive. Please stop spamming it. > > > > If you are a friend and need to contact me I can be reached at: > > > > Em

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
I'll put in a plug for "meld" if you're like me and non-masochistic. It's an X-windows application and is as simple as point & click. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/5/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > > You can always emerge colordiff and change your etc-update.conf and/or > > dispatch-conf.conf to use it. Lovely colours all around. :) > > Ive tried it with dispatch-conf. I went back to etc-upd

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, John wrote: > This email address is being abandoned due to the sick amount of junk mail I > receive. Please stop spamming it. > > If you are a friend and need to contact me I can be reached at: > > Email: firstinitiallastinitial at neochicago.com And the last name and initia

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: > You can always emerge colordiff and change your etc-update.conf and/or > dispatch-conf.conf to use it. Lovely colours all around. :) Ive tried it with dispatch-conf. I went back to etc-update and vimdiff (since its vi, its easy to move around and th

RE: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 August 2005 14:14 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please. > > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > > >

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread John
This email address is being abandoned due to the sick amount of junk mail I receive. Please stop spamming it. If you are a friend and need to contact me I can be reached at: Email: firstinitiallastinitial at neochicago.com IRC: scofflaw on EFnet Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote: > You could try dispatch-conf (see manpage) or emerge conf-update. > Unfortunately, etc-update has many known bugs. The problem you > mentioned sounds like bug 26807. Both etc-update and dispatch-conf have good and bad points - none of them are ideal tools.

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

2005-08-04 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: After a while, it gets old telling etc-update after each emerge update that no, I do *NOT* want to change... - my clocktime setting from "local" to "UTC" - my console font from "lat0-10" (48 rows with vga=2) to "default8x16" (30 rows with vga=2). - the hostnames of