On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Christopher <ctubbsii-fedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Which components/packages are best candidates for adding a feature which > would make it easier for users to track changes from the default %config > %files on the system? > > I've found this to be a deficiency, requiring users to do configuration > management independently of the installer tools on a system, and I think the > situation could be improved by adding functionality to the installation > tooling to track these changes better. > > 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. Alternatively, I could rename the configuration > file, and do a `dnf reinstall $myrpm` to replace the original, and then diff > them. Both of these methods are clunky, wasteful, and not without > side-effects. The naive approaches of diff and rebase work for some or even most config files. But a more sustainable approach is probably to make applications aware of this paradigm shift ([partial] configs in multiple locations), and allow them to look in multiple locations and also allow overrides with partial configurations like we know it from systemd [0]. This could potentially even solve the issue which we - oVirt Node - and also Atomic see with /etc/passwd - where the naive approach does not work. - fabian -- [0] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
