Updating configuration files

[Isac]

Hi. Newbie question:

How do I update configuration files? Emerge tells me that I should do that, and also tells me to check the man page for Emerge, but that didn't teach me anything. Neither did Google, Gentoo Wiki, Gentoo Forums or Sabayon forums.

Thanks in advance,

I

edit: fixed a typo - I typed "configuration" but meant "Emerge"

[Fitzcarraldo]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=3&chap=4

http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... tage_Guide (and various other places in the SL Wiki -- just use the search box)

[Isac]

Neither "etc-update" nor "dispatch-conf" work. They are installed (or they should be - I have emerged gentoolkit, which I need according to the Gentoo website, and I have the manpages), yet, when I try to run them, I get "command not found". What have I missed?

Well, I have to get some sleep now (it's 11:20 in the night here). I'll check back here first thing tomorrow. Good night!

[wolfden]

as root u run them

[Isac]

Turns out I had a lot of things to do before I could check the forums, but now I'm back...

as root u run them

Yikes! I can't believe I didn't think of that! Now I'm ashamed...
Thanks a lot!

[Isac]

New question:

I ran "sudo dispatch-conf", and when it updated the second file that needed updating, I got this:

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>> (2 of 2) -- /etc/cups/mime.convs
>> q quit, h help, n next, e edit-new, z zap-new, u use-new [b]# here I pressed "u"[/b]
   m merge, t toggle-merge, l look-merge: dispatch-conf: Error renaming /etc/cups/._cfg0000_mime.convs to /etc/cups/mime.convs: [Errno 2] No such file or directory; fatal

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 418, in <module>
    d.grind (portage.settings ['CONFIG_PROTECT'])
  File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 284, in grind
    self.post_process(conf['current'])
  File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 317, in post_process
    portage.dispatch_conf.file_archive_post_process(archive)
  File "//usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dispatch_conf.py", line 161, in file_arch

There's one thing I don't understand here. Why did a file that supposedly doesn't exist make my computer say a file needed updating?

Well, at least

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sudo find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*'

doesn't give me anything anymore, and that's good, right?

[wolfden]

if etc-update don't find anything - than your good