Re: Editfiles Considered Harmful (was: Re: Complex Editfiles Examples)

[Jeff Waugh]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:00, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> I totally agree that editfiles is a hack, and not well suited for the
> task of convergence of configuration files: for really simple things it
> is very good, but configuration files are rarely simple.

Although, editfiles against a datafile which is generated into a proper
configuration file is often very handy. Just add gmake. ;-)

> I'm sure I mentioned this about 6 months ago, a library I was working on
> to take care of the edits, knowing about structure and so on, but
> unfortunately development on that has stagnated.

Would ucf (a debian package for configuration updating) help here?

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