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On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Graham Murray wrote: |
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> Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of |
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> dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? |
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> The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration |
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> files where the value of an option has been manually changed following |
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> initial installation, then on an upgrade a new option is added close to |
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> the one previously changed. In this situation, dispatch-conf almost |
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> invariably wants to reset the changed option line back to its default. |
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> When selecting 'm' to merge changes it will present a left hand side |
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> with the already existing value (often plus other lines) with the right |
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> hand side with the default lines for both the existing line(s) and the |
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> new ones. |
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try cfg-update. It is way smarter than dispatch-conf. |
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