[squid-users] best way to merge old conf file into the new one so as to update it in place

Hello,

How do most of you update your conf file when upgrading to a new version. I
tried diff but that just makes file1 a copy of file2. Is there any
programmatic way of integrating just the changes you've made? I was
thinking of searching for all lines not commented out with a # and then
subbing in my values but it's often not a one-to-one relation. What I
normally do is do a diff on the two squid.conf.default files to see what has
been updated or added. Then I grep for all non-comment lines in the old
squid file and manually add those in at the appropriate places. But I was
thinking that there must be a way to programmatically script diff, patch, or
perl to feed the lines in. Perhaps I would just have to use begin/end tags
in the entire file.

Anyhow if you have a favorite method or if I have overlooked some obvious
use of diff, patch, etc. please let me know. If this has been asked before,
my apologies, I did check the archives and google but didn't see what I was
looking for. Maybe it's just obvious and I misread the man page on diff...

thanks,

Adam
Received on Tue Jun 10 2003 - 16:10:46 MDT