At 18:43 Uhr -0500 26.4.2005, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
>Hauke Fath wrote:
>> You have to extract etc.tgz to some safe place (e.g. mkdir /tmp/newetc ; cd
>> /tmp/newetc ; pax -pe -zrf /path/to/etc.tgz) and then point etcupdate(8) to
>> the files you just unpacked:
>>
>> 	etcupdate -a -l -v -b /tmp/newetc

Observe the paths!

>The  problem is that it seems to be comparing my ~/2.0.2/etc/* stuff to /*
>instead of /etc/* - see what I mean?

I think... yes.

Let me guess: Given the above paths, you called etcupdate with '-b
~/2.0.2/etc/'? That would have been one level too deep. 'etc.tgz' contains
./etc as well as files in ./dev and ./var.

If that wasn't it, please provide the exact commands you use for unpacking
the etc tarball and callong etcupdate.

	hauke

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