From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBlGx-0000Iq-87 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:52:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FCCEE041A; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6634DE041A for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CDA9711ABF1 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:52:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:52:22 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge Message-ID: <20090603085222.53c88004@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87zlcpc2pl.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> References: <87zlcpc2pl.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs65 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/d7jB5SPvz/qw=G/5Tlam=Yu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a14abfb7-f150-4be1-81c5-4f7c7217a905 X-Archives-Hash: 9c8349f48c32c2b45533ae19de6c8c04 --Sig_/d7jB5SPvz/qw=G/5Tlam=Yu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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?=20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill. --Sig_/d7jB5SPvz/qw=G/5Tlam=Yu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkomK7sACgkQum4al0N1GQOCQQCfVYn/bkby0Prxk9BbhbjgHpEW qWQAniR8Z7gZ/ljyvY4+tYBVTxFOeoGo =Y7av -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/d7jB5SPvz/qw=G/5Tlam=Yu--