[pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api v2] Use ucf to handle template overrides.

[Dominik Csapak]

On 4/9/20 7:18 AM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>> By selectively registering the existing template overrides with ucf, users get
>> asked once upon the next upgrade regarding their changes, and then will
>> always get prompted when the shipped default template changes.
> 
> Again, our main upgrade path is using GUI. I guess 99% of all users use the
> GUI to update.
> 
> So how does that help? Is it really worth the efforts?

if a users edits/uses a template, he (probably) already used the cli
at times...

until now we always told the users to check the templates on every
update (which is very tedious, since we do not change them that often)

now it uses (afaics) the same mechanisms as the default debian ones
(e.g. when users edit their ssh config, which often happens)

the gui update still uses the console so this works as intended?