Mick wrote:
On Saturday 30 August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:03:07 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote:
# etc-update
[...]
File: /etc/portage/._cfg0000_package.use
[...]
What is it about?
No, I didn't see it, but it looks like some package moved to another
category or got renamed so portage patched package.use for you.
That's exactly what happened.
Try
dispatch-config, preferably with vimdiff and perhaps RCS support, it
makes maintaining your config so much easier than etc-update.
I used dispatch-config for years, but have now switched to conf-update
after Alan recommended it.
I also used dispatch-config when it first came out, but I think it was still
in beta at the time. A couple of times it messed up my files when I tried to
manually merge them. Eventually, I decided to go back to etc-update which
would manually merge files without problem. I tried it again now and unlike
etc-update it nicely shows the differences:
===============================================
--- /etc/portage/package.use 2008-08-22 07:57:52.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/portage/._cfg0000_package.use 2008-08-28 06:06:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
media-gfx/splashutils fbcondecor
net-im/pidgin sasl gtk
net-dialup/ppp gtk
-app-emulation/virtualbox additions
+app-emulation/virtualbox-ose additions
www-client/mozilla-firefox moznopango
media-video/vlc cdda libnotify vlm wxwindows xosd
net-www/mplayerplug-in gtk
(1 of 1) -- /etc/portage/package.use
q quit, h help, n next, e edit-new, z zap-new, u use-new
m merge, t toggle-merge, l look-merge:
===============================================
Thank you.
I still use etc-update too. I keep backups of my /etc just in case. I
need to check into conf-update tho. May be interesting.
Dale
:-) :-)
