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app-portage/etc-proposals January 1, 2008

Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Aktuelles, Gentoo , trackback

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 :)

app-portage/etc-proposals

(The GTK+-2 Interface, config file changes while upgrading to OpenRC)

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1. Miller - 1. January 2008

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

2. Aniruddha - 1. January 2008

*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

3. Björn Michaelsen - 2. January 2008

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

4. Tobias Scherbaum - 2. January 2008

@Aniruddha: No plans yet …

5. Aniruddha - 2. January 2008

Too bad :’(