improving rpm

[Tom Brinkman]

On 12 3:40:S, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:42 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > seth vidal wrote:  [Wed Jul 12 2006, 04:26:26PM EDT]
> >
> > > > You are encouraged to take a look at how Gentoo manages
> > > > with etc-update. It's quite usable.  It doesn't automerge
> > > > by default, of course, but the UI is far better than the
> > > > .rpmsave business.
> > >
> > > How well does it handle un-attended operation?
> >
> > It doesn't.  Portage is designed for unattended operation too.
> > etc-update is a tool you run afterward to handle the config
> > conflicts.
>
> So then this shouldn't be tied into rpm at all. just an external
> tool to deal with config file changes.
>
> -sv

   FWIW,  etc-update-20020731-6mdk.noarch.rpm   installs and works 
properly on FC6-test if y'all want to take a look at it.
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/community/i586//media/contrib/etc-update-20020731-6mdk.noarch.rpm

$ which etc-update
/usr/bin/etc-update

    Gives these choices;

1) Upgrade to new /etc/ntp.conf.rpmnew
2) Keep existing /etc/ntp.conf
3) Merge the two files
4) Show the difference between the two files again
5) Skip (keep all files)
  OR
6) Quit etc-update

Type (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6): 6

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    Tom Brinkman                   Corpus Christi, Texas