Announcing yum-merge-conf, a yum plugin to merge configuration files
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Tue Mar 13 15:31:47 UTC 2007
At 7:52 AM +0100 3/13/07, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>Neal Becker wrote:
>> This sounds great! I haven't looked at the code yet.
>
>It's pretty trivial, you'll see
>
>> Will it also ignore cases when the new config hasn't actually changed, and
>> silently remove the redundant copy? That would be really great.
>
>If RPM created a copy, it means something has changed.
One would think so, but no, not always. Vim's rpm is one offender (retyped):
# ls /etc/vimrc*
/etc/vimrc /etc/vimrc.rpmnew
# diff /etc/vimrc*
#
>The plugin just looks
>for .rpmsave/.rpmnew files (depending if it's a %config or
>a %config(noreplace))
Hopefully it will be able to detect and merge such files. They're
certainly the easiest and safest to merge. ;-)
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