Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-30 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Monday 29 August 2005 01:59 am, A. Khattri wrote: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: > > Why not use dispatch-conf instead? > > Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to > etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features > added to

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-30 Thread George Garvey
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:44:24AM -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which > creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. Perhaps. But, I hope you don't find out the unpleasant way what it is not to backup your

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-29 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 27/ago/2005 a las 14:00 -0300, Alex me decía: > Joe writes: > > > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update > > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. > > Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which > > overwri

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: > Why not use dispatch-conf instead? Because it has some annoying quirks of its own that made me go back to etc-update. Etc-update would be perfect if it had the archiving features added to it. That said, I would rather use it (and be very very careful)

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-27 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday August 27 2005 11:57 am, Kai Ole Schultz wrote: > On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote : > > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update > > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. > > Why not use dispatch-conf instead? > Firs

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Joe writes: > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. > Of course this wouldn't be complete without a --restore option which > overwrites the existing /etc with the last created etc.tar.gz thus g

Re: [gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-27 Thread Kai Ole Schultz
On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote : > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which > creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update. Why not use dispatch-conf instead? HTH k.o.schultz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-27 Thread Joe Menola
90% of the time I've broken a Gentoo install has involved etc-update and admittedly myself doing something stupid. I've since developed the habit of tarring the /etc directory before running update. So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which creates /somewhere/l