On Monday 28 November 2005 07:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday 28 November 2005 04:15, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > >> Georg Grabler wrote: > >> > On Monday 28 November 2005 10:20, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > >> >>Well, fair enough but as I already said, he could update it as often > >> > >> as he likes if it was pkg'ed separately. I think most people have > >> to do the .pacnew tango when they update their initscripts and > >> that's frustrating when the scripts themselves have not changed at > >> all. > >> > >> > I didn't see a reason at all to update to the .pacnew files all the > >> > >> time. > >> > >> > Some day i feel like looking over the files i do... sometimes there > >> > >> are good changes in which i adobt, like the new network profiles > >> (thanks in this case again for this great update). > >> > >> Well, fair enough but if you are not running, for example, the latest > >> rc.sysinit then what is the point of updating initscripts at all?! > >> > >> > I dont feel threatened to update all my files everytime i see there > >> > >> has been addad a .pacnew file, since this updates won't corrupt the > >> system. > >> > >> > Regards, > >> > Grabler Georg > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > arch mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> arch mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > How hard would it be to enable some sort of semi auto updater to the > > config files kind of like what Gentoo does. The updater lets you know > > that there are updates available to the config files and lets you parse > > though the file and add changes. Maybe even a little more > > refined/better than the Gentoo one; maybe something that lets you know > > there is a change, automagically make changes to the specific locations > > in the file and gets your approval. This way, only NEW additions are > > added and your settings are left alone. > > > > Thoughts??? > > > > Joe > > UG !! > > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
Was that an UGH!!!! NO WAY... Or a U Go man :) It should be as simple as this... comm original_file updated_file -3 > diff_ ; cat diff_ >> original_file ; rm diff_ I tested this on a simple text file I had and it seemed to work ok... Joe _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
