Re:The Rule of Silence (2006)
by digi_owl on Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:31AM
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> You can't easily diff separate configs.
Reminding me of one of the little niceties of Gobolinux.
You have a pristine pr version config copy sitting in the main dir, and a package-wide settings dir. It also provides a command (implemented as a shell script, as is most of Gobolinux tools) that gets run upon installing a new package version.
If said command detects a difference between existing and new config files it gives you various options. You can have it retain all the old files, replace them with the new files, or even bring up a merged file that give you the new lines as comments next to the old ones.
Reminding me of one of the little niceties of Gobolinux.
You have a pristine pr version config copy sitting in the main dir, and a package-wide settings dir. It also provides a command (implemented as a shell script, as is most of Gobolinux tools) that gets run upon installing a new package version.
If said command detects a difference between existing and new config files it gives you various options. You can have it retain all the old files, replace them with the new files, or even bring up a merged file that give you the new lines as comments next to the old ones.