[Yast4debian-devel] The yast legend

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Hi!

D=C5=88a Tuesday 05 of July 2005 11:40 Mario Fux nap=C3=ADsal:
> Good morning
>
> The most longstanding myth about yast is the thing about the automatic
> overwritting of the manually changed config files.
>
> With some yast developers on this list I wanted to ask what do think about
> this? Is there a nucleus of truth?

Probably a use of SuSEconfig by the SUSE Linux. For some features, we=20
use /etc/sysconfig/.... to add addional data and allow cross-service=20
configuration. Then, a tool called SuSEconfig is used to pollute the=20
configuration files with the updated configuration. Unfortunatelly, it does=
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not handle user-modified configuration files well.

YaST itself is rather nice to the configuration files. Our INI-agent suppor=
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even live merging of the changes to a configuration file modified on disk=20
while YaST runs. So, there is "almost" no truth for that. OTOH, from time t=
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time, it's not possible to avoid rewriting the configuration file, typicall=
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when YaST can't cope with the full syntax (but I don't have any example at =
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hand right now)

Stano