From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:21:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlcpc2pl.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
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.
next reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-03 5:21 Graham Murray [this message]
2009-06-03 5:34 ` [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge Roy Wright
2009-06-03 7:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-03 7:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-03 15:58 ` Peter Humphrey
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