At 11:25 AM +0200 7/30/07, Matthias Saou wrote: >Panu Matilainen wrote : > >> [...] So: what have you always wanted to do >> with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always >> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind? > >After reading some of the other posts, I remembered something that has >often come up, which I would use extensively if it existed : > >Some automatic cache/copies of all %config files installed, with all >untouched versions always available. This would be very useful with >some simple tool to diff the current files(s) wit the backup(s), as >well as list all locally changed %config files. A sysadmin's dream come >true :-) As a sloppy sysadmin myself, I don't always remember to back up config files before editing, so an automatic %config backup on RPM install / upgrade would help me, and, I think, most other Linux users. On package upgrade, I'd like the previous / original config file to be kept as well if a .rpmnew file will be created for the actual config file (and the .rpmnew file should not be created if the files are identical, though that is a known tricky issue). -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
