On Wed, 05 Jun 2013, Greg Troxel wrote:
Generally, etc management systems should apply changes to the etc.tgz files to the real etc but should not overwrite any local changes.
Yes, I agree.
etcupdate appears to be too aggressive.
Please could you expand on this. Under what circumstances will etcupdate make unwanted changes? (As far as I know, etcupdate always prompts first, except in safe cases as requested by "-a".)
--apb (Alan Barrett)