Re: [Devil-linux-develop] etc.tar.bz2 upgrading ...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>I've found one thing that is a pain, upgrading to a new version CD, 
>plus also upgrading the configuration.
>
>If you don't upgrade the config, you are potentially missing new updates
>in scripts in the /etc/init.d directory and other places.
>
>If you DO upgrade your config, it's a pain copying over all your
>customized configuration files (or recreating them).
>
>I've been thinking of writing a script to ease this pain.  It can
>compare your old config to a new config, and ask you one file at a time
>if it should be upgraded or not.  Then create a updated etc.tar.bz2.
>
>Thoughts?
>  
>
Check if the file date is "Jan 1 1980", then it's an unmodified file.

I would be very happy if you would get an update script working !

cya
  Heiko