improving rpm
Adam Jackson
ajackson at redhat.com
Wed Jul 12 18:52:18 UTC 2006
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 12 juillet 2006 à 15:24 -0400, Neal Becker a écrit :
>
>> 1) Don't create needless .rpmsave/.rpmnew if there is no change
>
> Isn't it already supposed to do this ? (though if I look
> at /etc/ld.so.conf, probably not)
>
>> 2) Attempt to merge changes, in the manner of a modern revision control
>> system.
>
> This is a 100%-proof recipe for disaster, even if conf files where all
> in structured format like XML with full grammar available
You are encouraged to take a look at how Gentoo manages with etc-update.
It's quite usable. It doesn't automerge by default, of course, but
the UI is far better than the .rpmsave business.
- ajax
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