On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 22:25 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > It's official: I'm going to mentor a project related to config-model (without > forgetting Augeas which might also be involved) this year:
Congratulations ! Le me know if I can help out in any way. > == Content-aware Config Files Upgrading == > by Krzysztof Tyszecki, mentored by Dominique Dumont > > When a package deliver configuration files, the problem of merging > user data with new configuration instructions will arise during > package upgrades on users systems. Sometimes merging can be done with > 3 way merge, but this process does not insure that the resulting file > is correct or even legal. Or even what you think it might be. If you haven't seen it, Benjamin Pierce's paper on diff3[1] is well worth a read. David [1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/diff3-short.pdf _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
