On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 04:34:58PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/08/2017 16:21, Glen Barber wrote: > >> * Since we have no mechanism of properly merging changes to /etc > >> we simply copy files as needed with pc-updatemanager, and it is > >> difficult to maintain what should be updated, merged, or removed. > >> > > This is another long-standing item in the list of things to fix, indeed. > > The idea floated at BSDCam was to have a package that would install a > pristine copy of the /etc files under /var/db/etcupdate and prompt the > user to then use that tool to update or install their configs. That > should provide a nice compromise between having the files available from > pkgs and not enforcing a specific mechanism (tools, not policy) to > update /etc. > Why we do not stick with what was discussed before?
pkg know how to do 3 way merge and is configurable not to break anything. The only thing that is needed is to prepend the plist entry with an @config That's all. Why do we need something else? Bapt
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