[Yum-devel] New plugin: merge-conf

[Tim Lauridsen]

Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Hi yummers,
>
> There's a feature of another package manager that I like: when a config file
> has changed, it asks you if you want to keep your local copy or if you want
> to install the package's version. RPM is non-interactive, so it's not
> supposed to do this. But I thought this could be implemented in a yum
> plugin.
>
> I've written a plugin which does just that:
> http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/yum-merge-conf/merge-conf.py
> http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/yum-merge-conf/yum-merge-conf-1.3-1.noarch.rpm
>
> Add the --merge-conf command line option to your yum update, and it will ask
> you what to do with those .rpm{save,new} files as the packages are
> installed. You'll be able to diff the files, choose your version, run
> vimdiff on them, or spawn a shell to check further.
>
> It should work with yum 3.0.x and yum 3.1.x at least. Please have a look,
> the code is pretty easy. Since it's my first yum plugin and I'm not
> completely familiar with the yum api, I'm sure it could use some love, so
> please tell me what I can improve.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aurélien
>   
Hi Aurélien.

It looks good to me, if you want i can add to the other plugins in 
yum-utils.

Tim