125722 – update withe emerge: config files should overwritten automatically if not changed

Bug 125722 - update withe emerge: config files should overwritten automatically if not changed

Summary: update withe emerge: config files should overwritten automatically if not cha...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 8423

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Configuration (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Other

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2006-03-10 08:48 UTC by Armin Mohring
Modified:	2006-03-10 14:01 UTC (History)
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Description Armin Mohring 2006-03-10 08:48:28 UTC

emerge --deep world sometimes loads new config files to e.g. /etc/*.
If the old config files haven

Comment 1 Armin Mohring 2006-03-10 08:48:28 UTC

emerge --deep world sometimes loads new config files to e.g. /etc/*.
If the old config files haven´t been changed by the user or the system (compared with backup files stored on the system), these files could be overwritten by emerge without asking the sysadmin.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-03-10 14:01:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8423 ***