On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:43:52PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > Something that's missing in the OS is an "out of the box" experience > for the different ways one might use the operating system. Certainly one of the things I'm looking at atm is config preservation across upgrades, I think that a lot there is a lot of correlation between config management and "profiles". An intresting approach is that of config intent preservation - enabling switching between alternatives simply, and smooth upgrade across incompatible conf file syntax change, but that's not going to happen overnight > H. Some sort of RPM changes. Presumably we could make RPM smart about this > problem in some way. I don't have concrete ideas. One potential is to use the fact that %config already provides a virtual provides in rpm. Speaking with Jeff the is some underlying work related to ts.check to enable a split out for the config packages, then a seperate foo-config package could be maintained and also potential for local repository config splits. Paul
