app-portage/etc-proposals
etc-proposals just made in our beloved tree this morning, probably being the first addition in 2008.
I first came across this little nifty program which allows for easy graphical diffing between configfile changes (i.e. etc-update w/ GUI) around christmas and first tried it at the 24C3. I found it quite useful and therefore added its fresh and shiny new 1.4 release to gentoo-x86 today :)
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Tobias Scherbaum » … das war also 2008
pingbacked Posted 31. December 2008, 4:25 pm
[...] Mailman nicht ganz problemlos (TPE sei Dank *sigh*) auf einem Hardened Gentoo System installiert. etc-proposals in den Tree geworfen, grade festgestellt, dass das ja nun auch schon ein Jahr her ist. [...]
I’ve always used etc-update and meld [ http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-util/meld ] for a gui diff/merge.
Changes to /etc/etc-update.conf:
#diff_command=”diff -uN %file1 %file2″
diff_command=”meld %file1 %file2″
using_editor=1
*Off-topic*
Hi Tobias, do you have any plans to release your Gentoo Linux book in English? I really would like to purchase it!
*On topic*
emerging etc-proposals right now
For all new users:
A bug creeped into the 1.4 release:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203984
Its not a problem if you were already using etc-proposals 1.3 before, but new users should wait until the 1.4.1 release is in portage or use this ebuild:
> http://download.berlios.de/etc-proposals/etc-proposals-1.4.1.ebuild
in an local overlay, if you cant wait.
@Miller:
etc-proposals can do a lot more than etc-update and a GUI merger. (For example: Filtering unmodified config files, filtering CVS Header changes, filtering whitespace changes and much more)
see the homepage:
http://etc-proposals.berlios.de/
Björn Michaelsen, etc-proposals dev
@Aniruddha: No plans yet …
Too bad :’(