Re: experimental conffile merge for dpkg
Jarno Elonen (2003-04-27 14:16:02 +0300) :
> If we can agree wether or not, how and where the original conffiles
> should be saved, I'll be happy to implement 3-way merging to dpkg
> and write imediff3 as a user friendly UI for it. Opinions?
Unrelated to this diff thing, it's going to be a big help for people
who inadvertantly remove conffiles and can't restore them (or even
defaults) even with apt-get --reinstall install <package>.
There might be things to think about though: some packages have lots
of conffiles, and that could mean some extra disk space, which not
everyone will want to spend. Maybe make it optional.
Roland.
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Roland Mas
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