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

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >I've found one thing that is a pain, upgrading to a new version CD, 
> >plus also upgrading the configuration.
> ...
> Check if the file date is "Jan 1 1980", then it's an unmodified file.

I played it safe and compared each individual file.

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

It seems to working on my system (not uploaded yet).

Basically it untars the old etc file and the new etc file into different
subdirectories, compares every file in old to new, gives you a list of
which file(s) changed and asks which file(s) you'd like to copy to the
new directory.  Then it tars up a new etc config file.

I really hated the thought of having to answer y/n for potentially
dozens of files to copy over to the new config (like the old kernel
"make config"), so I wrote it using "dialog", like the setup program.

This lets you scroll back & forth though the list of changed files and
check which file(s) to copy.  Plus if you press the HELP button on a
particular modified file, it does a "ls -l" on both old/new files, then
does a "diff -u" on them, and then does a "less" on both files.

The disadvantage is you need "dialog" installed on your desktop.  Do you
have a problem with that?  Most distro's come with dialog (at least
Redhat has come with it for quite a few releases), or the user can
always download and install the dialog package ...

 - BS