F20 and Rawhide: Headless install and enabling VNC

[David]

On 2/20/2014 10:14 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:06:16PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
>> The *point* of the copy-and-edit system is so the 'stock' configuration
>> can be updated and you don't wind up with .rpmnews all over the place.
> 
> And now with my 'private' configuration simply overriding that 'stock'
> any corresponding "unit" updates/changes will be simply ignored even if
> a new version of a software has non-trivial functional differences, or
> if defaults need to be adjusted for security reasons, or ...  Morevover
> I am quite in dark about it _unless_ I happen to notice that update and
> remember that I have to reconcile my possibly few years old
> configuration with 'stock'.  Maybe you keep somewhere precise records
> for each system and every modification and conscientiously check them
> all the time but I am not that tidy.  Unfortunately. 
> 
>> If we ship it as /etc/systemd/system/vncserver at .service and you edit it,
> 
> The point is that I would rather not edit it at all and have my local
> configuration data applied in relevant places.  That was a role of
> properly written data files in /etc/sysconfig/. 'systemd' is actually
> capable of a substantial bit of that.
> 
>> it's never going to be 'magically' reconciled on update, you'll just get
>> a .rpmnew file. That's not any better.
> 
> At least .rpmnew flags for me that something happened I may want to look
> at.  Only that passing extra options from a configuration file quite
> often does not need on an update neither .rpmnew nor .rpmsave.
> 
>    Michal
> 


Would this be of any use for you?

"6.12. yum-plugin-merge-conf"

<http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch06s12.html>

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  David