On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:52:09PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > The "--force-confdef" caused heavy trouble on many systems when > locally modified conffiles are overwritten (without any question) by > Debian security updates. > > IMHO the default configuration should always ask me what I want or > should at least keep the old (modified) configuration but should never > overwrite my changes without asking me!
this must be a dpkg bug; in case of locally modified conffiles, --force-confdef should keep the modified file. could you send some log output of this misbehaviour? -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
