Bug#275951: Please split kdmrc into multiple files for ease of maintenance

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Achim Bohnet [Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:59:19 +0200]:
> On Monday 11 October 2004 10:14, Andras Korn wrote:
> > Package: kdm
> > Version: 4:3.3.0a-1
> > Severity: wishlist

> [...]
> > The split-out configfiles could be merged via an update-kdmrc script. An
> > even more sophisticated and only slightly more complex approach would be to
> > have three groups of configfiles: upstream, debian and local, and merge
> > these so that any options present in a later file override the ones in
> > earlier files (some grepping can do this). This would really make upgrades a
> > snap.

> > I'm willing, I guess, to implement the last proposal with the three groups
> > of files as a shell script; would you accept it?

> Good idea!  Before implementing such a script have a look at
> the ucf pkg ;)

  I think it wouldn't result difficult to implement this *if* one looks
  into using /usr/bin/genkdmconf, which is capable of generating kdm
  configuration files which are the result of *merging* existing files
  and new defaults and/or options.

  currently, genkdmconf is run once at build time and the resulting files
  are shipped (see kdebase/kdm/kfrontend/Makefile.am). I think it would
  make sense to run genkdmconf in the postinst script, so that local
  changes get merged.

  Andras, if you're still interested in the issue, please follow-up and
  we can discuss the implementation details. if not, I'll put this in my
  TODO list (I myself have been annoyed by this behavior longer than I
  can remember).

  cheers,

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