Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 03/11 10:57 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: >> Dale King wrote: >> >>> Old thread I know but I was thinking about the current situation (at >>> least >>> in debian) with config.pl being changed at each upgrade. >> >> I'd file a bug with the Debian packager or is this normal behavior on >> Debian? > > What he's referring to is that new options are added to the > config.pl file > with every version. So you have to go back and edit the new config > file to > apply your changes to the new file.
I know. I thought he was saying the Debian package was overwriting his config upon upgrading, erasing his modifications. On Red Hat style distro's packages usually create a config.pl.rpmnew file so you can manually merge them (unless the new version really needs the new config file to work, then your old config will be saved as config.pl.rpmsave). > I believe there's some script that does > this somewhat automatically if you're installing from source; but no > good > administrator will install from source. I guess I'm not a good administrator then. :o( > So the idea is that the config.pl file holds the defaults; the > config-local.pl holds the changes to the system-wide defaults; and > you can > freely clobber the old config.pl with a new one, and not worry about > overwriting someone's changes. I get the idea and I know other software that does this. Still, if defaults change upon an upgrade then I'd also like to know, so to me it doesn't matter much. I just use my trusty friend diff. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
