Re: Configuration file handling (was: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian)

2012-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:41:32PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On a related note... While we might criticise rpm for its bad conffile handling, dpkg is itself fairly woeful, and if we change one thing for wheezy+1, it should be sane conffile handling. dpkg should never forget about conffiles;

Configuration file handling (was: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian)

2012-05-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:53:34AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: 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

Re: Configuration file handling (was: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian)

2012-05-11 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 13:41:32 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:53:34AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: 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