Hi I have this thought everytime I upgrade a Red Hat system, and thought I'd share it this time, since I (like all the other times) probably won't get around to doing anythign about it anytime soon.
I always tar up /etc before an upgrade (in addition to normal backups). The changes are logged to /tmp/upgrade.log. What I end up doing is lessing that file in one terminal, and looking for all the .rpmsave/new messages. I then sdiff -b the new files against the backup and make the appropriate decision - keep the old, replace with the new, hand edit new to incorporate old customizations, etc. Now it seems to me that we are all doing this (maybe I'm wrong), and it would be a *great* little utility to have a "post-upgrade" script to make this a little easier. Even a gui might be useful to some. It could handle the simples cases automagically or with y/n prompts, and then popup an editor and the diff output for those that need it. And this just makes me think why Red Hat or anyone else hasn't thought of this? comments? charles _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
