Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread sean finney
hi barry, steve, fyi my on-list messages are getting moderated--what happened to every debian developer is an ubuntu developer? :) so, you might want to break etiquite and top-post to this message, or at least generously quote since the context might otherwise be missing. On Wed, Feb 09, 2011

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread sean finney
hi barry, On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:22:16AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: Has anybody thought about porting this nice behavior to Debian/Ubuntu? the problem is that dpkg does not keep track of the original pristine version of the conffile, so there's no 3rd version for the 3 way merge. some time

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, sean finney wrote: so i didn't exactly leave in a huff, but i did signal that i had no further intention of wasting my time until i had some idea that it would actually go anywhere. I'm sorry for all this. The problem is that Guillem is a single point of failure in

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:12:12 pm Ted Gould wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 11:13 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:22:16AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: There's one thing I miss from my days running Gentoo, and no, it's not the unholy number of hours it takes to