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