Announcing yum-merge-conf, a yum plugin to merge configuration files

[Ola Thoresen]

Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>>> It would be nice to have an additional check implemented in the
>>> plugin to workaround the bug.
>>>
>> Yes, that's what I meant.  Please, please.
> 
> That's trivial to do, I've added it.
> I also made a few fixes, the plugin should now work on FC6's yum and
> RawHide's yum too. I've updated the plugin itself only, the RPM is not
> updated. Just copy it to /usr/lib/yum-plugins
> http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/yum-merge-conf/merge-conf.py
> Please tell me what you think of it, what I should change, and what I should
> add.

Now, I don't speak python fluently, but as far as I can tell, the script 
will simply continue after the "diff" is run?
Would it be more intuitive if it would ask again if it should keep or 
replace after the diff is shown?


Rgds.

Ola Thoresen


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