When attempting to work with new configuration files that currently have a prefix of ._cfg####_, I have a serious amount of difficulty since when I attempt to find the new configuration file for a particular file, I cannot use autocompletion since the numbers get in the way. If the cfg prefix were turned into a suffix, it would be acceptable. A good, perhaps even better compromise would be putting the numbers in the suffix and the .cfg_ in the prefix. Is there a quick code patch that would do that just for my system? Thanks.
Uhh, are you trying to manage them by hand? There's a tool included with portage called 'etc-update' for doing that. Portage tells you about it at the end of every emerge when there are config files to be updated.
ZOMG... Use etc-update or dispatch-conf.
The naming convention for the files should be irrelevant if you use an appropriate tool. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4
(In reply to comment #3) > The naming convention for the files should be irrelevant if you use an > appropriate tool. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4 So, you're saying that Unix shell commands are not an appropriate tool for administering a Unix system? You Gentoo people are continually being very clueless. I put up with it, but this is another perfect example.
(In reply to comment #4) > So, you're saying that Unix shell commands are not an appropriate tool for > administering a Unix system? You Gentoo people are continually being very > clueless. I put up with it, but this is another perfect example. Let's say etc-update and dispatch-conf are more appropriate. Any way, you should use these tools, they will save you a lot of work. Oh, and please don't insult people next time. Thanks.
