Re: install/47956: etcupdate asks for questions it can derive

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/47956; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/47956: etcupdate asks for questions it can derive
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 04:33:38 +0400

 On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 15:10:00 +0000, 
reinoud%heethoofdje.13thmonkey.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > What i would like to see is making etcupdate smarter, like first
 > checking if a file has been modified by the user and if not install
 > the newer one over it.  If its changed, ask the user if it can
 > auto-patch it. This can be done just like cvs updates it, by
 > creating a patch file on the origional and then applying it on the
 > new one.
 
 See -a -l options in the manual page.
 
 -uwe