On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:50:53 +0100 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-02-15 22:24 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 February 2011 15:16:27 Tony Houghton wrote: > >> How about I file a wishlist bug for dpkg and apt for an option > >> similar to purge but which only purges files which haven't been > >> altered from the package's default? > > > > From what I understand, neither APT nor dpkg know if a file has > > been modified since it has been installed. > > Well, dpkg stores the md5sum of conffiles in its database and thus > knows when they are modified, so removing unmodified conffiles would > be possible in theory. However, the dpkg developers don't think this > is a good idea: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351900. They didn't say they don't think it's a good idea, just that they didn't see the point, but I think a point similar to mine (that something like purge that only purges unmodified files and keeps mosified ones would be good) was in a later post that they overlooked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110215223350.69756fdc@toddler