Updating profiles is a pain and known problem. The current plans for dealing with this are two fold. We have been working on a merge tool, which will allow two and three way profile merging. The tool will provide both automatic and manual merging of profiles. The other way of dealing with this for some users will be the profile repository; which will allow users to replace packaged profiles with profiles from an internet based repository that they can synch against. Access to the repository is being built into the tools (genprof/logprof), so it should just become part of the flow for managing profiles. The profile repository should be released soon, and the merge tool will follow eventually.
For the curious a little detail on the merge tool plans Two way merge: - The result of an automatic merge is the union of permissions of the two profiles. Conflicting x permissions must be dealt with specially but it can be done. - In manual mode the user will get prompted to resolve differences Three way merge: (uses an original copy, modified local copy, update of original copy) - In automatic mode the additions, deletions made by the user are detected (semantic diff of original and, local copy) and merged into the update profile (per two way merge). - In manual mode the user will get promted about each change they made that resulted in the local copy. -- Conflict in profiles in complain mode when upgrading apparmor-profiles https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
