Proposed guideline for init script files

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:07 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:27 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 2/28/07, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > It's called "to mess around in a system". Admins, who do that, often
> > > forget what files they've changed, and "rpm -Va" only reports the changed
> > > checksum, not a diff.
> > 
> > Hmmm, how much secret sauce would it take to make it easy to get a
> > diff of changes for scripts files which fail an rpm -V check. Probably
> > not really worth the pain of attempting to kludge together.
> > 
> > -jef"goes off to sandwhich yumdownloader, rpm -V, rpm2cpio and diff
> > together inside a delicious perl wrapper"spaleta
> > 
> Luke Macken, Will Woods, and I were talking about something just a
> little less ambitious at FudCON.  Just keeping a history of config
> files.  Here's a bit of a hack that could get you started.  The one
> glaring problem that I see with it is that it doesn't keep a copy of the
> original file.  ie: When I want to see the change, I probably want a
> diff3 between the original file, my modified file, and the file rpm is
> going to install.  Without the original, I can only see the changes
> between my modified file and the new one.

The last time this discussion came up, I suggested someone just go steal
code and/or ideas from Gentoo's etc-update, and no one seems to have
done so.

It's not like this is a new problem.

- ajax