Re: improving rpm

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

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