Hi! On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 22:50:05 -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On 03/10/2014 07:21 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > > Well...right now, yes. But after my presentation at devconf.cz, several > > people said they wanted RPM to default to doing that on every > > installation. And it would allow implementing "rpm config-diff" just > > like "ostree admin config-diff". > > > > (Yum now does have a generic "yum fs diff /etc", but it requires > > re-downloading the RPMs) > > > > So the data really isn't specific to OSTree itself - it's *required* by > > the OSTree model, but traditional package systems could implement it as > > well, and make use of it. > > Would it be possible to get some buy-in from the distros (say, RPM > and/or dpkg upstream) for the generic path? If there's no interest from > them, perhaps the package-specific path is the better option.
The plan for dpkg all along has been to store an additional copy of the previous and now being unpacked original conffiles under /var/lib/dpkg/, alongside the rest of its database. Thanks, Guillem _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
