Bug 19031

Summary:	Update emerge help
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Mokrejš <mmokrejs>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Mokrejš 2003-04-09 06:13:54 UTC

Hi,
  I think the following line could be added to the output of "emerge --help
config" command:

bash$ find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' |  while read new; do old=`echo $new | sed
s/\._cfg0000_//`; diff -u -w $old $new; cp -i $new $old; done

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-04-09 11:45:04 UTC

etc-update does that kind of fancy stuff for you ...

the added shell stuff will just confuse many people imo ...
not to mention someone randomly testing it out might overwrite files they dont want updated ;)

Comment 2 Martin Mokrejš 2003-04-09 19:47:25 UTC

Hmm, actually I've always missed the last sentence in the "emerge --help config" output mentioning briefly etc-update. Thank for noting that, just decide yourself if for blind people wouldn't it be better to mention etc-update in the output twice... ;)

Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-28 04:17:25 UTC

As noted in comments... It's already noted.