Only reporting conf file changes that you're interested in

[eddieparker]

Hello!

First off, apologies if this topic:

a) Has been discussed to death somewhere else
b) Doesn't belong here as it's up to some other tool to do (or currently does)
c) Is completely idiotic.

I merely am suggesting something that might be quite handy.

Now, onward:

I would like to request some opinions on an idea I was just struck with.

What would you think if dispatch-conf and/or etc-update only reported updated configuration files that have local modifications and/or you've (somehow) tagged as "please-notify-me-if-this-changes"?

I find that in my day to day, I trust the authors of the packages to update their respective /etc files in a sane way. There are but a small handful of files that I must monitor for changes, and I find I'm often "using new", barring those exceptions.

Would it be worthwhile to have a some mechanism of skipping configuration file changes that don't impact the admin? I'm interested in opinions, positive or negative.

Thanks,

-e-

P.S. Apologies if this doesn't belong in this forum. I was thinking of putting it in the Portage forum, however that seems to be more 'help' oriented, and less suggestion-oriented. Reprimand me lovingly, I tried!

[steveL]

I really like the idea :-)

[Thargor]

Just use dispatch-conf.
/etc/dispatch-conf.conf:

[eddieparker]

Oh, fantastic! I'll give this a whirl. Thanks!