(SOLVED(config files update

[vanGogh]

after emerging there|s the following warning

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}IMPORTANT> 44 config files in /etc needs update

unfortunately emerges help-function didn|t helped me much cause i still don|t know what to do!

is there any wiki or docu on that topic_
thx

[ChrisWhite]

Basically it means you need to update your configuration files. You can do this one of 2 ways:

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etc-update

or

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dispatch-conf

I use the second one because the interface is a tad quicker and it backs up your config files in case all hell breaks lose. When handling configuration files, portage won't overwrite files in /etc or anything in CONFIG_PROTECT. So let's say xorg gets an update. You've got this xorg.conf file you spent 3 hours working on (like me ). Obviously you don't want that thing overwritten, so you can choose to keep it. However, you've got an /etc/init.d script that just got updated to fix a bug. Here you'd want to replace it in order to solve that bug. Another option is to merge the changes. This is mostly interactive, and lets you merge your changes and the new files changes. What you decide to do is generally up to you. Most people know what file they've edited in /etc, and what files can get replaced.

[vanGogh]

alright thank you for examples

but problem is that i am too unexperient to say which files can be replaced
in addition, emerge told me to update 44 files but etc-update onlz showed me 15

so i am still looking for a nice wiki or docu!

[vanGogh]

so i did etc-update and then i understood