On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:21:02 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> > The issue is that etc-update doesn't have the version of the config
> > file as installed by the version of the package that's being replaced,
> > so it can't tell the difference between non-trivial changes to the
> > config file as shipped by gentoo between the old version and the new
> > version and non-trivial local modifications that I've made myself to a
> > config file which has not been changed between package versions. I've
> > definitely had etc-update ask for confirmation on files I'm sure I
> > didn't change
>
> I haven't use etc-update for a while, but dispatch-conf can do this.
>
> # Automerge files that the user hasn't modified
> # (yes or no)
> replace-unmodified=no
>
> Whether this is a good idea is a completely separate issue. If a service
> had a config file change between versions and the file was updated to the
> new format while the old daemon was still running, the results could be
> "interesting".
I actually wanted the opposite feature: have an extra confirmation
required for replacing a locally-modified file. And it shouldn't require
all of the extra bookkeeping of dispatch-conf to get this, although
dispatch-conf is clearly a lot closer.
-Daniel
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