> 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 >
Doable...yes certainly. Desirable....UGH !! i.e......Arch philosophy was/is to "return" control to the user...This automagical revision of conf files has been resisted, as a rule, from the beginning. Very best regards; Bob Finch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
