Hi, what about the following idea. If a configuration file is marked as conffile in a package you have the possibility to select between:
- Install the new version of the configuration file from the package - Keep your current installed version of the file - View the differences This is imho pretty suboptimal because even if you see the differences between the files and install a new version or keep the old version you always have the problem that you might miss new configuration flags or you have to adapt the new file manually from your old backup and "merge" the changes. What about the possibility to view the patch, edit it with your favorite editor and the just apply the patch? This way you don't have to do all the manual stuff after installing the packages and you don't miss new configuration flags. Are there already people who started to do something similar? Do you think this is useful? The problem is obvious, you can't just edit a patch in an editor if you want it to apply cleanly after editing it. The patchutils package has the editpatch tool to edit patches and it basically opens an editor and calls rediff afterwards to fix the broken ranges of the diff. I guess it would be a bad idea to depend on patchutils in dpkg so that would be ~1000 LOC C extra for rediff in dpkg. What do you think? Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de JAB: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF Forget about that mouse with 3/4/5 buttons, gimme a keyboard with 103/104/105 keys! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
