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On Tuesday 30 August 2005 01:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:06:29 -0400, Eric Crossman wrote: |
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> > While I agree that etc-update is a vast improvement over other package |
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> > systems, it would be nice to have a CVS type merge where I only have to |
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> > make choices when the "system can't figure it out". It seems like |
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> > etc-update (and friends) should be able to take advantage of mtime |
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> > metadata and md5 checksums to determine if I've made any modifications |
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> > to the default config file. That way an unmodified default config from |
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> > version N can just safely be replaced with the new default for version N |
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> > +1. Does this functionality already exist with the current etc-update? |
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> It exists as an option with dispatch-conf, as do options to automatically |
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> replace files if the only differences are whitespace and comments. |
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But, it does not automatically do an update if the original file has not |
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changed. That would be a cool feature. How often are files changed, for |
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example in /etc/init.d, but you have not changed that file? I would love the |
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option to automatically update any configuration file that I did not change |
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from the original install. |
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Right on Eric! |
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Sean |
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