On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 16:40 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Hi yummers,
> >
> > There's a feature of another package manager that I like: when a config file
> > has changed, it asks you if you want to keep your local copy or if you want
> > to install the package's version. RPM is non-interactive, so it's not
> > supposed to do this. But I thought this could be implemented in a yum
> > plugin.
> >
> > I've written a plugin which does just that:
> > http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/yum-merge-conf/merge-conf.py
> > http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/yum-merge-conf/yum-merge-conf-1.3-1.noarch.rpm
> >
> > Add the --merge-conf command line option to your yum update, and it will ask
> > you what to do with those .rpm{save,new} files as the packages are
> > installed. You'll be able to diff the files, choose your version, run
> > vimdiff on them, or spawn a shell to check further.
> >
> > It should work with yum 3.0.x and yum 3.1.x at least. Please have a look,
> > the code is pretty easy. Since it's my first yum plugin and I'm not
> > completely familiar with the yum api, I'm sure it could use some love, so
> > please tell me what I can improve.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aurélien
> >   
> Hi Aurélien.
> 
> It looks good to me, if you want i can add to the other plugins in 
> yum-utils.
> 

+1 to getting it into yum-utils.

-sv


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