Le 20/08/2020 à 10:08, Kusoneko a écrit : > On August 19, 2020 8:16:08 PM UTC, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Em agosto 19, 2020 17:04 Yaro Kasear escreveu: >>> Yes there is. The defaults are literally what's in the config file in >>> the archive and not on the filesystem. How would that not be a way to >>> determine default settings? >>> >>> I'm not suggesting the package manager would have to understand the >>> settings, but it would be able to tell if the contents of that file >> are >>> different from another version. (Which it obviously does already, >>> otherwise it wouldn't know to make a pacnew file.) >>> >>> I can't imagine it'd be that difficult for pacman to compare >> checksums >>> between files in /etc or /boot between versions of a package (If a >>> previous version is available.) and what's on /etc and determine if >> it >>> really needs to bother putting a pacnew file on the filesystem that >>> doesn't need to be there. It's already doing some sort of check >> between >>> what's in the package and what's on the filesystem already. >>> >> How is everything you just said, different than what pacman already >> does? >> How would it determine not to create a .pacnew? If you can answer both >> these >> questions, I'd encourage you to send patches to pacman. Because I >> couldn't >> understand how what you said is any different than the current pacnew >> logic. >> >> Regards, >> Giancarlo Razzolini > I think he's trying to imply that pacman stores a copy of the archive > containing the previous version somewhere and that pacman should extract the > config files from both and see if something changed before providing a > .pacnew. Only thing is, that would cost much more storage space than if one > lazily ignored and let the pacnew files be wherever they're placed. In other > words, not really a good idea unless you have tons of storage space. I guess > you could theoretically patch pacman to do so for yourself if you really > wanted to, but for most people it wouldn't be worth it.
Please read the remaining of the thread you’re replying to before posting. ;) This has already been addressed, and pacman actually does this (using hashes as to not waste storage space). Bruno/Archange
