Contents 1 ETC-UPDATE 1.1 NAME 1.2 SYNOPSIS 1.3 DESCRIPTION 1.4 OPTIONS 1.5 REPORTING BUGS 1.6 AUTHORS 1.7 FILES 1.8 SEE ALSO

ETC-UPDATE

Section: Portage (1)
Updated: Dec 2005
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NAME

etc-update - handle configuration file updates

SYNOPSIS

etc-update

DESCRIPTION

etc-update is supposed to be run after merging a new package to see if there are updates to the configuration files. If a new configuration file will override an old one, etc-update will prompt the user for a decision.

etc-update will check all directories in the CONFIG_PROTECT variable. All config files found in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK will automatically be updated for you by etc-update. See make.conf(5) for more information.

OPTIONS

None.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/

AUTHORS

Jochem Kossen and Leo Lipelis
Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

FILES

/etc/etc-update.conf

Configuration settings for etc-update are stored here.

/etc/dispatch-conf.conf

Settings for dispatching configuration files right before they're merged.

SEE ALSO

make.conf(5)

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