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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:30:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906030930.41380.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlcpc2pl.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>

On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, 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.
> When selecting 'm' to merge changes it will present a left hand side
> with the already existing value (often plus other lines) with the right
> hand side with the default lines for both the existing line(s) and the
> new ones.

try cfg-update. It is way smarter than dispatch-conf.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03  7:30 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 [this message]
2009-06-03  7:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-03 15:58   ` Peter Humphrey

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