rpmconf and new feature to configure application
Florian Weimer
fweimer at redhat.com
Fri Jul 26 07:20:22 UTC 2013
On 07/25/2013 05:35 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> You might be interested to know that OSTree does that automatically:
>
> # ostree admin config-diff
> M group
> M fstab
> M gshadow
> M shadow
> M passwd
> M resolv.conf
> A vconsole.conf
> A .pwd.lock
> A passwd-
> A shadow-
> A group-
> A gshadow-
> A X11
> A X11/xorg.conf.d
> A X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
> #
>
> The way this works is that the default etc is shipped as /usr/etc,
> so we can always diff it versus the real /etc.
Ideally, you'd also have a third copy, the pristine version of the
configuration file that was installed before the file was edited first.
That way, you could run three-way diffs and clarify which differences
are actual local edits, and which differences come from packaging changes.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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