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.


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Neil Bothwick

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