Re: [gentoo-dev] new config files....

[Nathaniel Grady]

As a user I think a nice feature would be to have emerge actually list all the files that were saved as ._cfg... with an indication of if the original was "untouched" or "modified." An example of where this would be very usefull is the pcmcia-cs package. The /etc/pcmcia/config file may be updated to include some new cards and I never touched it because config.opts is where local changes are supposed to reside. Chances are PCMCIA will work fine and I won't even bother to look to see what config files could be updated because I don't have the time to worry about it, however someting may have been changed for a very good reason (possibly change a default for security reasons or some such). Even worse is the baselayout Geert Bevin complains about below. I understand the policy and thing it is sound, but i would still like a --overwrite-untouched that saves the original config file with a ._old prefix and gives a list at the end of config files i overwrote to give me a chance to make shure i didn't do someting i didn't want to (which menas it is only overwriting config files when told by the administrator, and even then doing so very cautiousally and making backups). 

just my 2 cents :)

--Nate

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:20:26PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:19:28PM +0100, Geert Bevin wrote:
> > There is one additional feature I'd appreciate very much personally.
> > Currently if th file exists, the ._cfg file is created. Imho it would be
> > nice if an additional check would be performed first to see if it has
> > been modified by the user. If it hasn't, it can be overwritten  without
> > problems. Now when I'm diffing after installing a new baselayout I spend
> > a lot of time on files I've never even touched.
>
> The way we do it now is a policy decision.  We simply do not want config
> files to change without the admin knowing about it.  Assuming that an
> untouched file is "fair game" is still an assumption -- one that could
> very easily be wrong.
>
> Best Regards,
>
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