Proposed guideline for init script files

[Rahul Sundaram]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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.
> 

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-July/msg00286.html

It is available as RPM even for Fedora is some third party repositories.

Rahul