On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > although re-installation in most cases might be suitable (and ensures that > all computers will get the same software versions as long as the mirror is > frozen), from time to time I have to do upgrades, in particular on > solitary machines. > If I only call "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" almost no questions would > be asked, and I'm afraid that configuration files that have been adjusted > by a FAI script/* would also be silently overwritten. > Is that true (or am I just paranoid)? > How can I avoid overwriting config files changed by me without asking? > How are others handling this situation?
if the adjusted files are conffiles (in the dpkg sense), then dpkg will ask before overwriting them. ( as the dpkg "default" selection is (almost) always right, 'force-confdef' in /etc/dpkg.cfg will make dpkg ask only if there is no sensible default. ) -- c u henning