Aurelien Bompard wrote: > Dear Fedoreans, > > Having followed the debate over whether to flag init scripts as %config > files, I thought that there's a feature of another package manager that I > liked: when a config file has changed, it asks you if you want to keep > your local copy or if you want to install the package's version. > RPM is non-interactive, so it's not supposed to do this. But I thought > this could be implemented in a yum plugin. > > I've written a plugin which does just this: > http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/yum-merge-conf/merge-conf.py > http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/yum-merge-conf/yum-merge-conf-1.0-1.noarch.rpm > > Add the --merge-conf command line option to your yum update, and it will > ask you what to do with those .rpm{save,new} files as the packages are > installed. You'll be able to diff the files, choose your version, or spawn > a shell to check further. > > If you think you could be interested in this feature, please have a look. > If you think it's a useful plugin and it's decently written (it's my first > yum plugin), I'll submit it to the yum list. > This sounds great! I haven't looked at the code yet. Will it also ignore cases when the new config hasn't actually changed, and silently remove the redundant copy? That would be really great. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
