improving rpm

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 13 01:45:08 UTC 2006


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
>

Seth,

I heard urpmi in Mandriva offers some interactive choices with this. 
Maybe you can take a look at that and see if similar features can be 
implemented in Yum.

Rahul





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