On 11/05/2012 08:47, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du jeudi 10 mai 2012, vers 20:29, > Jean-Christophe Dubacq <jean-christophe.dub...@ens-lyon.org> disait : > >> I do not know about trivially merging changes in the etc-overrides-lib >> model, but in the current model, I am presented with the dpkg prompt >> about conffiles for some programs where I added (or changed) only one >> line (off the top of my head: only the servers list in roundcube, for >> example), and dpkg does not propose to merge the two files: I am either >> stuck with keeping my old file, taking the new, or using a shell. All >> these things are interactive and prevent unattended upgrades without >> disruption of services. > > roundcube uses ucf for its main configuration file and therefore, you > should have a prompt with possibility to merge. Never got it. But I can quote other (courier, for example). Even /etc/default/locale was "updated" (only to include a bunch of comments). Is it really necessary ?
BTW, for standard workstations, there is less and less need to change things in /etc. My current quota is 1346 files in /etc for about 30 of them with local changes. This is quite a bad signal/noise ratio. If dpkg kept a copy of the original configuration file (to be retrieved at all times), it would be easier to spot local changes. I use etckeeper to do that, but it's a bit tiresome to isolate all local changes (I have to save the diffs somewhere) (and a lost hope if you do install etckeeper late in the workstation life). My git-fu is probably not good enough (I am probably looking for a "pristine" branch and a rebased "local" branch used in production). -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq
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