On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:35:40PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I hate how badly the configuration file updating works everywhere (well, > or at least in Debian). If the changes don't really change any existing > settings and won't conflict with the modified parts of the config file, > there's no need to ask anything about merging. > > Why couldn't it work by doing a diff of the old and new default config > files, and then try to patch the changes into the current config. If the > patch succeeds, that's your new config. Of course if the new config file > really changes existing defaults, it shouldn't do this without asking.
I'm actually doing a "merge dovecot.conf <old-default> <new-default>" every time, and it usually causes some conflicts due to changed comments. They're easy to resolve, of course, but it could be avoided. Geert
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