Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Fürst wrote: > > Hm, why not? It messed up my network configuration, which I wouldn't > > expect if I upgrade potato to a _stable_ woody. Of course, I don't > > complain now. But how will that be handled in the future? > > You were presented with a prompt that gave you the choice of replacing > it, keeping your existing working file, viewing a diff of the changes, > or getting a shell to do whatever. It defaulted to keeping your existing > working file. If you chose to replace it with the new one and not merge > in your changes, then that is your operator error.
Yes, that's right. However: 1. The files looked *very* different; to me it seemed that the syntax must have changed. In fact that wasn't the case (at least I think that now), it was just additional variables, different order and much more comments. But at a first and second glance I thought that the old file would never work with the new pcmcia-cs. 2. The file hadn't been created by me, but by a script. So I didn't know anything about it, neither syntax nor where it's documented, or when it had been created. Perhaps that is a general problem with conffiles generated by scripts, I don't know if there is a way to deal with this that fits to all cases. But I would expect that a file that has been created by a configuration script asking me questions is never replaced by a sample file. Why not ask wether to re-run the script (or its successor) - this would be done anyway if I didn't upgrade, but add pmcia to a system that previously didn't have that. Bye, Frank
