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.

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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