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

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 10/13/2003 03:43:30 PM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> >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 differe=
nt
>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, the=
n
>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 y=
ou
>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 ...

You can also add it to DL, so we don't have any requirements outside of=
 our
system.
Just change the function you have added earlier (blah wrong version bla=
h),
by the upgrade utility.

cya
  Heiko
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