71751 – etc update should compare checksums before asking the user what to do

Bug 71751 - etc update should compare checksums before asking the user what to do

Summary: etc update should compare checksums before asking the user what to do

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-11-19 05:33 UTC by Tiago Freire
Modified:	2005-01-10 19:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Tiago Freire 2004-11-19 05:33:35 UTC

Dear Developers,

Portage Rocks! Still, there can always be some improvement.
I wondered why does etc-update asks whether I should replace some files or not, which I never touched. Portage already checksums the sources, it could also store checksums of the config files and etc-update would compare the checksum of the config file at installation time with the checksum of the actual file, and ask what to do only if the file has been changed.

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-10 19:20:31 UTC

Because default changes are not nice.