Announcing yum-merge-conf, a yum plugin to merge configuration files
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 13 15:57:34 UTC 2007
Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 7:52 AM +0100 3/13/07, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>>Neal Becker wrote:
>>> This sounds great! I haven't looked at the code yet.
>>
>>It's pretty trivial, you'll see
>>
>>> Will it also ignore cases when the new config hasn't actually changed,
>>> and
>>> silently remove the redundant copy? That would be really great.
>>
>>If RPM created a copy, it means something has changed.
>
> One would think so, but no, not always. Vim's rpm is one offender
> (retyped):
>
> # ls /etc/vimrc*
> /etc/vimrc /etc/vimrc.rpmnew
> # diff /etc/vimrc*
timestamp, owner, permissions?
-- Rex
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