Hi, On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > I would like to have some tool/collection of scripts to be able to > diff/apply system/packaging related stuff. > It should be able to have a branching/merging workflow like git. > let's call it 'debdiff'
debdiff is a bad name as we already have such a tool (it compares two .deb). > I would just like to know if there's anything close to the process I > described. I know of nothing similar that covers all aspects. > If not, what would be needed to get something off the ground? If you really want to include configuration files update, and if you really want to support merge, then you have to wait until dpkg stores the initial content of all config files so that you can apply a diff on top of any configuration file and not only on top of an unmodified file. (You can find several bugreports about this on the BTS, it's likely that the bug will be solved during Squeeze) > What is missing is a textual representation of apt/dpkg/debconf's state > though. All those tools use text files for their own databases. So I don't think that this is what is really missing. But of course you can't just version control them to solve your merge requirement as all those files should only be modified by the corresponding tool. > If I get enough feedback I might start implementing something. Feel free to try it out, if you're convinced that there is a need for this (because you would like to have it), then it should be enough to motivate you. :) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
