Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (17 mails)

[Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@xxxxxxxx>]

Michal Hrusecky schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking about how to work with configuration files updates
> (feature #306411 [1]). In the end it seems that it would require some
> adjustments to installation system as well. I think it can be divided
> into two main features, so I'll post them here in two e-mails so it will
> be easier to track them. And the reason is of course to discuss there
> features, collect ideas and hopefully somebody will consider/implement
> them.
>
> Second thing that would be nice to have is some trigger which will get
> run after each installation/deinstallation/upgrade. Well, easiest way to
> implement feature #306411 is to use some script to collect conflicting
> configuration files after each installation and to display some warning
> that there are some conflicts that needs resolving. Warning should be
> easily possible to do, once previous feature would be supported.
>
> Other possibility how to achieve the same result would be some patch
> for rpm so it will generate such a message itself or calls something to
> "merge" conflicting files.
>
> I'm not sure what would be the best approach here. I can see some more
> generic usage of the first approach (like logging into mailbox or
> database), but I'm starting to think that second approach sounds better
> although patching rpm because of such a specific and probably minor
> feature also doesn't look like a good idea...
>
> [1] https://features.opensuse.org/306411
  Great, now we have a feature entry for Enh 506815
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506815).

  As a user I would basically think about an rpm integration as a good
idea since I do still sometimes download and install/upgrade rpms
manually. Besides this an rpm based patch would resolve our issue for
zypper as well.
  Nonetheless a YaST/Opensuse updater/zypper integration will be of much
greater value since I use these package management utilities most of the
time.
  If the effort to supply both a GUI mechanism for YaST/OS-Updater and a
textmode notification for rpm/zypper were not too high I would welcome both.
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