From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:52:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603085222.53c88004@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlcpc2pl.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>
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On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:21:10 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
> Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of
> dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent?
>
> The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration
> files where the value of an option has been manually changed following
> initial installation, then on an upgrade a new option is added close to
> the one previously changed. In this situation, dispatch-conf almost
> invariably wants to reset the changed option line back to its default.
I switched from dispatch-conf to conf-update a while ago and much prefer
it. The merging is more flexible and rarely has problems as you describe.
--
Neil Bothwick
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-03 5:21 [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge Graham Murray
2009-06-03 5:34 ` Roy Wright
2009-06-03 7:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-03 7:52 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-06-03 15:58 ` Peter Humphrey
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