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 _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
