On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:43:52PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
Hi,
Something that's missing in the OS is an "out of the box" experience
for the different ways one might use the operating system.
Certainly one of the things I'm looking at atm is config preservation across
upgrades, I think that a lot there is a lot of correlation between config
management and "profiles".
An intresting approach is that of config intent preservation - enabling
switching between alternatives simply, and smooth upgrade across incompatible
conf file syntax change, but that's not going to happen overnight
H. Some sort of RPM changes. Presumably we could make RPM smart
about this
problem in some way. I don't have concrete ideas.
One potential is to use the fact that %config already provides a virtual
provides in rpm. Speaking with Jeff the is some underlying work related to
ts.check to enable a split out for the config packages, then a seperate
foo-config package could be maintained and also potential for local repository
config splits.
Paul