[olug] RE: Gentoo vs Red Hat (was Red Hat network and update removal)

[Steve Busby]

On Friday 26 September 2003 08:08 am, Tim Bornholtz wrote:
> Terry Bradshaw wrote:
> > I just started setting up Gentoo this week (from Red Hat 9).
> >
> > Evolve is really slick.  I'm still not sure if I have the best compile
> > options set yet, but I figure it can be recompiled later.  I'm mostly
> > working on getting all my .conf files merged from updates right now.
> > I'm not real confident on that yet.
> >
> > Terry
>
> I completely screwed up my /etc directory the first time I ran
> etc-update.  Be a bit careful.  One of the things that I found on the
> gentoo forums was to switch plain old diff with a graphical one.
>
> Modify your /etc/etc-update.conf like this (the first line is the
> default and the second line is what I'm using):
>
> #pager="less"
> pager=""
>
>
> #diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2"
> diff_command="gtkdiff %file1 %file2"
>
> #merge_command="sdiff -s -o %merged %orig %new"
> merge_command="gtkdiff -o %merged %orig %new"
>
>
> Of course, you'll have to emerge gtkdiff for this to work
>
> Good luck and welgome to Gentoo!
>
> Tim
>SNIPPED<

Great tip Tim!  

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