Switched to xorg - etc-update craziness

Remillard

So, I gritted my teeth and unmerged xfree, and emerged xorg-x11....

It compiled fine.

When it finished, I have 230 config files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb that need updating. What the heck are these? Am I really going to need to go through 230 files and check the modifications?
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texas1emt · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:28 pm Post subject:

Most of those 230 files are configs that XFree was modifying and setting up while you had it running.

I made a similar migration and just let etc-update have its way with me. I let it update everything as it wanted to. I had to re-do my xorg.conf (which I needed to do anyway) and I had a few other issues. After going through my Xorg log, I weeded out the bad conf files and I was okay.

There's a cut-and-dry HOWTO on the Gentoo-Wiki that might be of assistance. They claim you can let etc-update update whatever it wants, just watch out for /etc/fstab and /etc/group and the like.
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

The only xfree configuration file you probably touched was XF86Config, so just copy that to your home directory or something, then let etc-update overwrite all the old files, then copy it back as xorg.conf (it should be compatible with xorg).

rhill · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:14 am Post subject:

check out dispatch-conf. it can automerge any config where the diff is only headers or comments or whitespace. it can also do files you've never modified, but only if dispatch-conf has merged them before.

texas1emt · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:25 am Post subject: