[GLLUG] Installing Gentoo

[Joseph Glass]

Hi Seth,

You can run etc-update and then merge each file individually, while
inspecting any changes.  On a new system you can probably replace all of
the old configuration files with the new ones, but after you configure
any services be careful you don't replace anything important.

If there are only a few files to update, I usually just do a diff -u
from the command line then overwrite the old config file with the new.

Good luck!

Joe

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 13:30, Seth Bembeneck wrote:
> I’m in the process of installing Gentoo and just did the ‘emerge sync’
> command. It said that config files had to be updated. So upon further
> investigation, I ran the command ‘etc-update’.
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> What do I do with the config files that are different then the
> originals? Do I over write them, interactive merge them, or skip that
> file?
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> Thanks,
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> Seth
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