On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 05:58:47 +0100, Christopher wrote:
> For example, I can see which %config files have changed with `rpm -V`, but
> I can't see what the changes actually are unless I do `dnf download
> $myrpm`, extract it, and diff them.
Using this script of mine. It keeps original unchanged configuration files
from rpm in ~/rpmmerge/** so that you can diff local changes:
http://git.jankratochvil.net/?p=nethome.git;a=blob;f=bin/rpmmerge
One needs to run the command after OS install and best both before+after each
'yum/dnf upgrade'.
> rpmconf is nice, because it helps me easily compare configuration files
> whose user-changes and maintainer-changes conflict... but that's not quite
> the same thing.
Neither rpmconf nor anything else in Fedora keeps the original configuration
file of the installed NVRA. Therefore after 'yum/dnf upgrade' you have:
* old-NVRA modified config file
* new-NVRA original config file
And there is no way to _automatically_ merge them to get the needed:
* new-NVRA modified config file
Because for that 3-way merge you need also
* old-NVRA original config file
which is kept (and merged) by my 'rpmmerge' tool above.
> rpmconf might also need modification to support tracking configuration
> management more fully, rather than just for updates.
It should be primarily a default behavior of the default package management
tools.
Jan
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