On Monday 28 November 2005 07:17, Joe Giles wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2005 07:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Monday 28 November 2005 04:15, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > > >> Georg Grabler wrote: > > >> > On Monday 28 November 2005 10:20, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > > >> >>Well, fair enough but as I already said, he could update it as often > > >> > > >> as he likes if it was pkg'ed separately. I think most people have > > >> to do the .pacnew tango when they update their initscripts and > > >> that's frustrating when the scripts themselves have not changed at > > >> all. > > >> > > >> > I didn't see a reason at all to update to the .pacnew files all the > > >> > > >> time. > > >> > > >> > Some day i feel like looking over the files i do... sometimes there > > >> > > >> are good changes in which i adobt, like the new network profiles > > >> (thanks in this case again for this great update). > > >> > > >> Well, fair enough but if you are not running, for example, the latest > > >> rc.sysinit then what is the point of updating initscripts at all?! > > >> > > >> > I dont feel threatened to update all my files everytime i see there > > >> > > >> has been addad a .pacnew file, since this updates won't corrupt the > > >> system. > > >> > > >> > Regards, > > >> > Grabler Georg > > >> > > > >> > _______________________________________________ > > >> > arch mailing list > > >> > arch@archlinux.org > > >> > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> arch mailing list > > >> arch@archlinux.org > > >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > > > How hard would it be to enable some sort of semi auto updater to the > > > config files kind of like what Gentoo does. The updater lets you know > > > that there are updates available to the config files and lets you > > > parse though the file and add changes. Maybe even a little more > > > refined/better than the Gentoo one; maybe something that lets you know > > > there is a change, automagically make changes to the specific > > > locations in the file and gets your approval. This way, only NEW > > > additions are added and your settings are left alone. > > > > > > Thoughts??? > > > > > > Joe > > > > UG !! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > arch@archlinux.org > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > Was that an UGH!!!! NO WAY... Or a U Go man :) > > It should be as simple as this... > > comm original_file updated_file -3 > diff_ ; cat diff_ >> original_file ; > rm diff_ > > I tested this on a simple text file I had and it seemed to work ok... > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
Actually, the compare method might get messy. How about a simple diff and patch ? Joe _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
