Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: >> >>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). > > You might be interested in a proposal at UDS this week: > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-q-dpkg-pristine-conffiles
So basically, we'd have a directory of files under /etc that are not conffiles, and even made 0440. Amusing proposal. Why not move them outside of /etc then, if they are not configuration files, and should not be touched by the user? (Yeah, sure, they can be moved out of /etc, but that doesn't stop the original proposal being amusing, sorry.) -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwb7t1vo.fsf@algernon.balabit
