Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:58:20 -0500 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wrote: > > > Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. > > > > Celejar writes: > > > Yes, but if you edit it by hand, then it won't be updated when a > > > new version becomes available. > > > > You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or replacing > > it with the new version. > > Yes, but neither choice is entirely satisfactory; if I keep my > version, I don't get any improvements the devs / maints have made, > and if I choose the new one, I (may) have to redo my changes. It is > therefore preferable to make changes through dpkg-reconfigure to > avoid this problem.
There is work in progress for a third option to merge the new stuff with the customized config. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
