Public bug reported:
I just finished doing an update of gdm through update-manager. I was
thoroughly impressed with the fact that I got a graphical "keep/replace"
window complete with a diff of the gdm.conf file which I had previously
edited. Can I make a couple of suggestions to enhance that experience?
1) a "side-by-side" diff (i.e. like vim -d) will probably be more intuitive for
users not familiar with looking at context diffs
2) in fact, giving the option to opening a vim -d (like) window with both files
where you can easily edit the .dpkg-new to match the changes you made to the
existing file would be superb
3) is it feasible to keep a copy of all configuration files in a package so
that when upgrade time comes and apt detects a file has been changed, it has a
pristine copy it can produce a diff against and try to apply that same diff to
the new file -- all with user interaction and confirmation of course
- perhaps a repository of pristine files can be kept which apt can go and
fetch a pristine copy for a diff
4) the "cats ass" would be a kind of interface built on the above where a
graphical interface shows each of the diffs in a side-by-side mode from the
patch produced from (3) and a checkbox for which ones to try to apply
Thoughts?
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
--
RFE: a bit more flexibility in handling modified files
https://launchpad.net/bugs/67382
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
