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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if |
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> the existing file has identical content to the file to be |
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> installed, the file to be installed is installed as normal. |
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I would much prefer new files to be treated as if replacing an |
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existing zero length file. When something is installed into /etc, |
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etc-update should alert me to this, because logically speaking a |
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new configuration file is a big configuration change. |
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Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the config |
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protection area, and it should be up to tools like etc-update to |
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(configurably) automerge new files and identical files, just like |
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it can be configured to automerge trivial/comment changes. |
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Benno |
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