Re: RPM roadmapping

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

On 7/30/07, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info> wrote:
> /me would like something like this as well, so I'm jumping in here
>
> On 30.07.2007 11:38, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, Matthias Saou
> > <thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net>
> > wrote:
> >> Panu Matilainen wrote :
> >>> [...] So: what have you always wanted to do
> >>> with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always
> >>> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind?
> >> After reading some of the other posts, I remembered something that has
> >> often come up, which I would use extensively if it existed :
> >>
> >> Some automatic cache/copies of all %config files installed, with all
> >> untouched versions always available. This would be very useful with
> >> some simple tool to diff the current files(s) wit the backup(s), as
> >> well as list all locally changed %config files. A sysadmin's dream come
> >> true :-)
> > To be clear, are you thinking of a something like
> >
> > cp *.conf /etc/backupconfs?
>
> For me the proper solution would be: (1) let RPM (or the packages
> itself) ship a copy of all %config files somewhere in a place where they
> are safe and don't get modified. (2) When the user edited a %config file
> then let rpm on package update make a copy of the %config file from the
> *old* package into another save place
>
> Why that you ask? Simple, that way I can diff my current config file
> against the modified one it is based on (the one created in (2) above).
> Then I can take the current config file (the one from (1) above), copy
> it in place and (manually) apply the diff I created earlier.
>
> CU
> knurd


Seems like a good idea to me. But considering that config files are
relatively small, this would be best if done automatically.

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