On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Graham Murray wrote: > Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of > dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? > > The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration > files where the value of an option has been manually changed following > initial installation, then on an upgrade a new option is added close to > the one previously changed. In this situation, dispatch-conf almost > invariably wants to reset the changed option line back to its default. > When selecting 'm' to merge changes it will present a left hand side > with the already existing value (often plus other lines) with the right > hand side with the default lines for both the existing line(s) and the > new ones.
try cfg-update. It is way smarter than dispatch-conf.
