Bug 29428

Summary:	req - backup config files when etc-update modifies/replaces
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Ron Vissers <ron.vissers>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ron Vissers 2003-09-23 07:48:51 UTC

Hi, 
Feature request:  
Please add the ability to etc-update to keep a minimum of 1 backup copy (somewhere) 
of any config file that it modifies, interactively merges, or overwrites.  This would aid 
recoverability if we clobber a file accidentally or merge it improperly.   
 
I'm sure the initial response will be, back them up manually.  This gets pretty old when 
doing multiple systems.   

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-09-23 21:10:29 UTC

read /etc/dispatch-conf.conf, it provides archiving