FS#22958 - Interactive Handling of Updated Config Files

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Phillip Smith (fukawi2) - Saturday, 19 February 2011, 10:25 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 21 February 2011, 13:55 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.4.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

At the moment pacman has the well-known behavior of creating either .pacnew and/or .pacsave files during upgrades of configuration files that need to be manually reviewed after an upgrade.

It would be nice to have a configurable option in pacman.conf to enable interactive management of these files during upgrade.

Debian/apt handle this with the following output:

Configuration file `/etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf'
==> Deleted (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** php5.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Monday, 21 February 2011, 13:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Use pacdiff; if it does not provide all the functionality you are looking for then patches are always welcome to enhance it.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Saturday, 19 February 2011, 10:47 GMT
Just run pacdiff after a pacman upgrade for the same result.

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