etc-proposals - an etc-update replacement

bmichaelsen · Last edited by bmichaelsen on Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:15 am; edited 8 times in total

(this post keeps changing to be up to date)
Hi guys,

I wrote yet another etc-update replacement, and am wondering if anyone likes it.
For gentoo-users, who like the commandline, etc-proposals is a gentoo configuration file updater, that, unlike etc-update and dispatch-conf, provides a shell with tabcompletion and allows updating of selected fileparts.
Features:

* lean dependancies (only portage and readline, no diff, no rcs, nothing else)
* shell-like UI with tabcompletion and history
* can be used just like dispatch-conf, so you dont need to learn anything new (however, you might actually like the additional features)
* the ability to accept certain changes to a file, while dismissing others
* dynamical recalculation of changes (i.e. if on update proposes to change a line and is accepted, the user wont be asked again, if a second update proposes the same)
* the ability to accept/dismiss all changes to a file/dir
* the ability to review decisions before they are merged
* showing changes in a change/proposal/file/dir/all
* the ability to undo decisions, if they are not yet merged into the filesystem
* undo a change/proposal/file/dir
* goto <change>, completely with tabcompletion
* merging of changes to the configuration files is not done on a file-by-file basis, but can be triggered at any time. This allows the user to review his changes.
* provides the ability to edit a proposed changes, opening the editor of choice at the changed lines (this is currently supported in nano, emacs and vi)
* keeps decisions on proposed changes, even if the tool is stopped
* online help from the shell

More info and current version at: http://michaelsen.kicks-ass.net/Members/bjoern/etcproposals/

BR, Björn

dev-urandom · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 260 Location: Huh?

@bmichaelsen: Looks great. I'll give it a try on my system and see how it rolls over the next few weeks.

Thanks.
_________________
/earth: file system full.

bmichaelsen · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:46 am Post subject:

Well, keep coming back. Updates are coming. ;-)

bmichaelsen · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:39 am Post subject:

I continued to work on etc-proposals yesterday.

- undo now works on a change/proposal/file/dir in addition to all
- show now works on a proposal/file/dir/all in addition to change
- goto <change> works, completely with tabcompletion
- fixed a bug, when you have to update-proposals for one file and first use or zap a change from the second proposal, and then from the first. etc-proposals now only keeps decisions on the second proposal if it is possible.
- lots of minor fixes and cleaning

I forgot the file at home and will upload it tomorrow ...

bmichaelsen · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject:

If you cant wait till tomorrow, here is a hint:
The file is a gzipped tarfile, not a bzip2ed tarfile as the name might suggest. I botched the naming in the CMS, Sorry about that one.
To unpack just run

bmichaelsen · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:15 am Post subject:

New version:
- emacs support
- undo now works on a change/proposal/file/dir in addition to all
- show now works on a proposal/file/dir/all in addition to change
- goto <change> works, completely with tabcompletion
- fixed a bug, when you have to update-proposals for one file and first use or zap a change from the second proposal, and then from the first. etc-proposals now only keeps decisions on the second proposal if it is possible.
- lots of minor fixes and cleaning

bmichaelsen · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:09 am Post subject:

etcproposals Version 0.9.20061114 released. Packed in a proper distutils source tarball and there is even a ebuild available!

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6780

bmichaelsen · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

bmichaelsen · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

The ebuild is now in the gentoo-sunrise overlay. Installation just got easier.
http://www.gentoo-sunrise.org/

bmichaelsen · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

etc-proposals 1.0 ist out!
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3935310.html?sid=1eda9e53f670ab520e9169f2fea1414a#3935310