Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to bring the uninitiated like me up to date about ways to upgrade > changed > dpkg conffiles, I would greatly appreciate if someone with insight could > summarize the current status: [...] > + Are there some specific reasons why dpkg doesn't offer > "merge interactively" in addition to "keep old", "install new", > "show diff" and "shell" when upgrading a package with changed conffiles > or is it just a feature that nobody has tried to implement yet?
> + Does dpkg currently save the original conffiles somewhere to make 3-way > merging possible? [...] Afaik the original conffile is not available, dpkg just has the md5sum of it in /var/lib/dpkg/status. I doubt that two-way-merging is _very_ useful. cu andreas