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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 15:24:39 +0200
From: Thomas Bader <thomasb@trash.net>
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Subject: Chapter ``18.4.7. Update /etc'' in the handbook
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Hi!

To merge the new /etc-files, I did the following:

  cp -Rp /etc /etc.old
  mkdir /var/tmp/root
  cd /usr/src/etc
  make DESTDIR=3D/var/tmp/root distrib-dirs distribution
  cd /var/tmp/root
  diff -r etc /etc | less

This way I can see, which files have changed and I can copy
or merge them to /etc.  This is much easier then making a
timestamp in /var/tmp/root every time a "make world" is
performed and one can do this even if he has not did it
before and therefore has no /var/tmp/root with a timestamp.
And, finally, it is much easier then do a diff for each file
manually.

Couldn't be that mentioned in the handbook?

Thomas
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