Re: dpkg conffiles merging - request for status summary

2003-04-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jarno Elonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to bring the uninitiated like me up to date about ways to upgrade changed dpkg conffiles, I would greatly appreciate if someone with insight could summarize the current status: [...] + Are there some specific reasons why dpkg doesn't offer

Re: dpkg conffiles merging - request for status summary

2003-04-27 Thread Jarno Elonen
Afaik the original conffile is not available, dpkg just has the md5sum of it in /var/lib/dpkg/status. I doubt that two-way-merging is _very_ useful. Well, you can now try for yourself. :-) http://elonen.iki.fi/code/dpkg-merge/ - Jarno

dpkg conffiles merging - request for status summary

2003-04-20 Thread Jarno Elonen
Just to bring the uninitiated like me up to date about ways to upgrade changed dpkg conffiles, I would greatly appreciate if someone with insight could summarize the current status: + How emotional has the discussion on this topic been in the past? Scale: 0 (mostly technical) ... 5