Hi! On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 01:41:38 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [brian m. carlson] > > IIRC, the reason md5sums of conffiles are shipped is to determine > > whether they have been changed by the administrator so that dpkg > > knows whether to automatically replace them with newer versions or > > not. > > Yes, I know. But the fact that these checksums are needed for dpkg's > conffile functionality doesn't make them any less redundant. dpkg > could just as well generate them just-in-time, at unpack time.
Also unimportant, but that's how dpkg does and has always worked. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101216184443.ga3...@gaara.hadrons.org