Comments on: app-portage/etc-proposals

By: Tobias Scherbaum » … das war also 2008

Tobias Scherbaum » … das war also 2008 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:25:35 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Aniruddha

Aniruddha — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:03:26 +0000

Too bad :’(

By: Tobias Scherbaum

Tobias Scherbaum — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:44:28 +0000

@Aniruddha: No plans yet …

By: Björn Michaelsen

Björn Michaelsen — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:00:50 +0000

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

By: Aniruddha

Aniruddha — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:52:15 +0000

*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

By: Miller

Miller — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:33:15 +0000

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