Bug 101520

Summary:	Improve etc-update with option to auto-merge unchanged files
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	petruchio
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description petruchio 2005-08-06 02:26:58 UTC

It would be very helpful if etc-update could, if configured to do so,  
distinguish a stock config file from one which had been modified, and  
auto-merge the new versions of any unmodified files.  I suspect that  
relatively few of us wish to read the changes between standard config files,  
and it is often difficult to pick out the files changed by hand from the  
larger list of files with non-trivial changes in the newer versions.  With 
such an option, many fewer of us would find ourselves with 50+ config files to 
process on a regular basis. 
 
It would also be nice to be able to auto-merge changed binary files, such 
as /etc/udev/scripts/usb_id (which is an executable). 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-06 02:30:28 UTC

It's a duplicate of bug 48505.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-06 02:45:04 UTC

As this is essentially a request to merge unmodified configuration files
automatically, I'm marking this as a dupe of Bug 11763.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11763 ***