Great! One question though what would happen if one creates an update rule
but the new config file already existed ?  Would the exisitng config file be 
over-written or does it simply get ignored ?

Regards,
Dawit A.

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 14:29, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> See also kdelibs/kconf_update. Comments, questions & feature requests
> welcome!
>
> README kconf_update
>
> Version: 1.0
> Author: Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>, <bastian@suse.com>
>
> What it does
> ============
>
> kconf_update is a tool designed to update config files. Over time
> applications sometimes need to rearrange the way configuration options are
> stored. Since such an update shouldn't influence the configuration options
> that the user has selected, the application must take care that the options
> stored in the old way will still be honoured.
>
> What used to happen is that the application looks up both the old and the
> new configuration option and then decides which one to use. This method has
> several drawbacks:
> * The application may need to read more configuration files than strictly
> needed, resulting in a slower startup.
> * The application becomes bigger with code that will only be used once.
>
> kconf_update addresses these problems by offering a framework to update
> configuration files without adding code to the application itself.
>
>
> How it works
> ============
>
> Applications can install so called "update files" under
> $KDEDIR/share/apps/kconf_update. An update file has ".upd" as extension and
> contains instructions for transferring/converting configuration information
> from one place to another.
>
> Updating the configuration happens automatically, either when KDE gets
> started or when kded detects a new update file in the above mentionmed
> location.
>
> Update files are seperated into sections. Each section has an Id. When a
> section describing a configuration change has been applied, the Id will be
> stored in the file "kconf_updaterc". This information is used to make sure
> that a configuration update is only performed once.
>
> If you overwrite an existing update file with a new version that contains a
> new section, only the update instructions from this extra section will be
> performed.
>
> Example update file
> ===================
>
> # This is comment
> Id=kde2.2
> File=kioslaverc,kio_httprc
> Group=Proxy Settings
> Key=NoProxyFor
> Key=UseProxy
> Key=httpProxy,Proxy
> Group=Cache Settings,Cache
> Key=MaxCacheSize
> Key=UseCache
> Group=UserAgent
> AllKeys
> # End of file
>
>
> The above update file extracts config information from the file
> "kioslaverc" and stores it into the file "kio_httprc".
>
> It reads the keys "NoProxyFor", "UseProxy" and "httpProxy" from the group
> "Proxy Settings" in the "kioslaverc" file. If any of these options are
> present they are written to the keys "NoProxyFor", "UseProxy" and "Proxy"
> (!) in the group "Proxy Settings" in the "kio_httprc" file.
>
> It also reads the keys "MaxCacheSize" and "UseCache" from the group
> "Cache Settings" in the "kioslaverc" file and writes this information to
> the keys "MaxCacheSize" and "UseCache" in the group "Cache" (!) in the
> "kio_httprc" file.
>
> Finally it takes all keys in the "UserAgent" group of the file "kioslaverc"
> and moves then to the "UserAgent" group in the "kio_httprc" file.
>
>
> Have fun,
> Waldo
 
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