Man I am totally freaked to run etc-update.............

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

After reading some horor stories about etc-update from the gentoolkit I aint so sure I want to do it although everytime I emerge something or do anything with emerge it says that one /etc file needs updating. I have a backup script running on start up (thanks Roy) now but still I don't have the time to do all the /etc file checking by hand or to save an attempt to update gone wrong. Was there a bug in the gentoolkit that has been fixed or is there a specific way that I should run it to avoid fking things up? Thanks.

klieber

rommel · Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 2:35 pm Post subject:

just use the diff command....and look over each entry....its a good idea the first time you do it to write down the cfg files that were generated and then go down the list making notes as you change them ...as you are satisfied that you can update the old etc files just use the mv command....you can cp the originals to whatevertheywereto beginwith.old if you are particularly paranoid...but its not as bad as it looks and most will just be system stuff that can be mv'ed without your having to do anything but look at them....once you have made it through just run rsync and update world often so its not so many at one time.

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

You could write a script that backs up all the new config files and check them when you get more time, but as kleiber stated you can get used to the process and do the config checking quickly using diff.

I always pop open two consoles one with the names of the new config files and one to do the diff'ing on.
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