Bug 99828

Summary:	Advanced Config File protection for dispatch-conf
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	folken <folken>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description folken 2005-07-21 13:17:28 UTC

Hi,

Its really positive to have a tool that can do backups of the changes it makes
during the etc files update. It's also a lot more comfortable to use. 

How about md5summing the config files at installation time and automatically
update them unless they no longer match the md5sum at upgrade time? This would
greatly ease the maintenance of these files and is less prone to human error.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-21 13:54:11 UTC

See /etc/dispatch-conf.conf; replace-unmodified=yes