On Wednesday 23 January 2013 16:58:52 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > But I cannot push this further all by myself.
>
> Poke the individual Debian maintainers - they're smart people :-)
They are also busy people. They will be more likely to move if *their* users
are complaining ;-) , or even better
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:26:05PM +, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > > > - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give
> > > >
> > > > you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I
> > > >
On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > > - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give
> > >
> > > you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I
> > > typically open up a different session and use vim/emacs to merge the
> >
David Guntner wrote:
> Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote:
> >> If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config
> >> file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at
> >> least go through the process manually. W
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote:
>> If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config
>> file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at
>> least go through the process manually. What fun!
>
> It does. If you c
On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote:
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote:
You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look
through? Or something else?
No - it will prompt interactively during in
Johan Grönqvist grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> 2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev:
>> Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian?
>> Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you
>> since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new cont
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote:
>> You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look
>> through? Or something else?
>
> No - it will prompt interactively during installation. There are
> options o
2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev:
Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian?
Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you
since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content with
an easy-to-search-for .something at the end?
Hi
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote:
> Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote:
> >> Hi, all.
> >>
> >> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
> >> updated a package
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
>> updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified,
>> urpmi was smart enough t
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
> updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified,
> urpmi was smart enough to realize it, and wouldn't just blindly wipe it
> out.
On Jan 8, 2013 3:43 PM, "David Guntner" wrote:
>
> Hi, all.
>
[snip]
>
> Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian?
> Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you
> since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content with
> an easy
Hi, all.
Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified,
urpmi was smart enough to realize it, and wouldn't just blindly wipe it
out. Instead, it would create a new copy for you to look over and
merge. I.E.
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