Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: What happened to update-config?

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 00:09, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Oct 14 2003, Robert wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:51, John Goerzen wrote:
> > 
> > > OK... but that doesn't explain why update-config had to be removed now for
> > > something that isn't there yet.
> > 
> > Well, I can't explain the cause - only the history. There is a common
> > idiom replacing it:
> > tla catcfg <X> | awk { 'print $1' } | tla update

oops, that was plain broken. Should have had xargs in there.

> Note that the line above will update to the latest revision of each
> version, which may very well not be what you want. A better approach is
> this:
> 
>  tla catcfg <X> | xargs -n2 tla update -d

Well, more flexible, for different scenarios.

Rob
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