Handbook:Parts/Portage/Tools/de

dispatch-conf
is a tool that aids in merging the files. files are generated by Portage when it wants to overwrite a file in a directory protected by the CONFIG_PROTECT variable.

With, users are able to merge updates to their configuration files while keeping track of all changes. stores the differences between the configuration files as patches or by using the RCS revision system. This means that if someone makes a mistake when updating a config file, the administrator can revert the file to the previous version at any time.

When using, users can ask to keep the configuration file as-is, use the new configuration file, edit the current one or merge the changes interactively. also has some nice additional features:


 * Automatically merge configuration file updates that only contain updates to comments.
 * Automatically merge configuration files which only differ in the amount of whitespace.

Edit first and create the directory referenced by the archive-dir variable. Then, execute :

When running, each changed config file will be reviewed one at a time. Press to update (replace) the current config file with the new one and continue to the next file. Press to zap (delete) the new config file and continue to the next file. The key will instruct  to skip to the next file. This can be done to delay a merge until a future time. Once all config files have been taken care of, will exit. At any time, can be used to exit the application as well.

Für weitere Informationen schauen Sie sich die dispatch-conf Man-Page an. Sie beschreibt wie man aktuelle und neue Konfigurationsdateien interaktiv zusammenführt, neue Konfigurationsdateien bearbeitet, Unterschiede zwischen Dateien untersucht und weiteres.

etc-update
Another tool to merge configuration files is. It is not as simple to use as, nor as fully featured, but it does provide an interactive merging setup and can also auto-merge trivial changes.

However, unlike, does not preserve the old versions of the config files. Once a file is updated, the old version is gone forever. Be very careful, as using is significantly less safe than using  when desiring to keep old configuration files.

Nach der Vereinigung der unkomplizierten Änderungen, bekommt man eine Liste der geschützten Dateien, die noch auf eine Aktualisierung warten. Unten werden die möglichen Optionen gezeigt:

When entering,  will exit and discontinue any other changes. With  or , all listed configuration files will be overwritten with the newer versions. It is therefore very important to first select the configuration files that should not be automatically updated. This is simply a matter of entering the number listed to the left of that configuration file.

Als Beispiel wählen wir die Konfigurationsdatei :

The differences between the two files are shown. If the updated configuration file can be used without problems, enter. If the updated configuration file isn't necessary, or doesn't provide any new or useful information, enter. If the current configuration file has to be interactively updated, enter.

Es hat keinen Zweck das interaktive Verschmelzen hier weiter auszuführen. Der Vollständigkeit halber führen wir die möglichen Befehle auf, die bei der interaktiven Zusammenführung verwendet werden können. Die Benutzer werden von zwei Zeilen (der originalen und der vorgeschlagenen neuen) und einem Prompt empfangen, an dem der Benutzer einen der folgenden Befehle eingeben kann:

After having finished updating the important configuration files, users can then automatically update all the other configuration files. will exit if it doesn't find any more updateable configuration files.

quickpkg
With users can create archives of the packages that are already merged on the system. These archives can be used as prebuilt packages. Running is straightforward: just add the names of the packages to archive.

Zur Archivierung von z.B. curl, orage und procps:

Die vorgefertigten Pakete werden in $PKGDIR gespeichert (standardmässig in ). Diese Pakete werden in untergebracht.