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A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?Everyone will know a message like this: Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' What I would want is something like M: merge files interactively which would then call vimdiff, probably via $DIFF_EDITOR Is anyone aware of any such solution or has good suggestions Thanks, -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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A sane way to merge config file differences during package insta
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf'
> ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
> ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
> What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
> Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
> N or O : keep your currently-installed version
> D : show the differences between the versions
> Z : background this process to examine the situation
> The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** sysctl.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
>
> What I would want is something like
>
> M: merge files interactively
>
> which would then call vimdiff, probably via $DIFF_EDITOR
> or some other variable if something like it does already exist.
I'd like that too. At the moment I just hit Z to suspend and then
do vimdiff manually.
Cheers,
Andy
A sane way to merge config file differences during package insta
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On 09/02/07 04:55, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Everyone will know a message like this:
>
> Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf'
> ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
> ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
> What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
> Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
> N or O : keep your currently-installed version
> D : show the differences between the versions
> Z : background this process to examine the situation
> The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** sysctl.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
>
> What I would want is something like
>
> M: merge files interactively
>
> which would then call vimdiff, probably via $DIFF_EDITOR
> or some other variable if something like it does already exist.
>
> Is anyone aware of any such solution or has good suggestions
> on custom-creating it?
Great idea! File a wishlist bug against debconf.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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A sane way to merge config file differences during package insta
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:01:46 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 09/02/07 04:55, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> > Everyone will know a message like this:
> >
> > Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf'
> > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
> > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
> > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
> > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
> > N or O : keep your currently-installed version
> > D : show the differences between the versions
> > Z : background this process to examine the situation
> > The default action is to keep your current version.
> > *** sysctl.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
> >
> > What I would want is something like
> >
> > M: merge files interactively
> >
> > which would then call vimdiff, probably via $DIFF_EDITOR
> > or some other variable if something like it does already exist.
> >
> > Is anyone aware of any such solution or has good suggestions
> > on custom-creating it?
>
> Great idea! File a wishlist bug against debconf.
There was a sub-thread about this back in March:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/03/msg02895.html
Andrei said that there was work in progress for a merge
option.
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
Celejar
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A sane way to merge config file differences during package insta
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:39:27AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > Great idea! File a wishlist bug against debconf.
>
> There was a sub-thread about this back in March:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/03/msg02895.html
>
> Andrei said that there was work in progress for a merge
> option.
Huh, I must be getting old, I can barely remember that. I think I got
that from debian-devel.
Regards,
Andrei
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