Bug 138760 - The upgrade process should have a post-reboot process that iterates through configuration files whose contents need to be merged
Summary: The upgrade process should have a post-reboot process that iterates through c...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: distribution
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Bill Nottingham
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-11 00:31 UTC by Bryan Headley
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-11-11 19:28:57 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Bryan Headley 2004-11-11 00:31:06 UTC
Description of problem:

The upgrade process should have a post-reboot process that iterates
through configuration files whose contents need to be merged. Example,
I do a FC2 - FC3 upgrade. I now have an /etc/yum.conf and an
/etc/yum.conf.rpmnew. If I run yum (and it's stock,) it'll try to get
updates for FC2 instead of FC3 (which is wrong.)

The right thing to do is, a GUI package modelled after tkdiff

1. For each rpm package, iterate through known config files.
2. If exists $(dirname)/conf_file.rpm*, put said package name in a 
scrollable widget with radio button. You choose of that list of rpm
packages whose config files have changed, which current/rpm* files you
want to diff in a tkdiff-like diffy/merge tool.
3. And you go through and visit each one. The tool of course allows
you to exit after changing one or many or NO conf files (make a
change; check it out)

4. Personally, I like dpkg's concept of "do you want to keep your
changes, overwrite with the packager's conf file, or diff them" that
Debian has.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-11-11 19:28:57 UTC
This is better solved by fixing RPM's config file algorithm.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.