Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually changed

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:21:10 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 08:52:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: I switched from dispatch-conf to conf-update a while ago and much prefer it. The merging is more flexible and rarely has problems as you describe. Well I'm still using etc-update. The only difficult case is when squid is updated on my

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Graham Murray
Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually changed following initial installation, then on an upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually