Bug#189805: improvment: use of sdiff to merge configuration-files
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: wishlist
Hi !
I use very often sdiff to merge existing configuration-files
with new files.
If I install packages with apt-get, and there is a new
configuration-file included in the package, i will get
a prompt which askes me which release of the configfile
i would like to use.
>sdiff --output=new.cfg old.cfg maintainer.cfg
This tool starts a interactive mode, which helps to merge
the mainter-file with the existing, and saves the merge to new.cfg.
Maybe this would be a nice additional alternative for
choosig what to do with the confog-file :-)
(Surely - a backup backup of the old one should also be included :-))
Best regards
Marc Schoechlin
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dragan 2.4.20 #1 Son Dez 22 18:54:47 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.9 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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