On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 12:45 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security
> fixes on using command line as per below:
>
> $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o
> Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y --allow-
> unauthenticated
>
> above command line with APT configuration is supposed to keep the old
> configuration files in place (without prompting) as per [1] but it is
> prompting me about locally modified /etc/samba/smb.conf (which is
> custom configuration in place)
>
> [1]
> https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-configuration-file-managed-by-dpkg/
>
> ...
> A new version (/run/samba/upgrades/smb.conf) of configuration file
> /etc/samba/smb.conf is available, but the version installed currently
> has been locally modified.
> What do you want to do about modified config file smb.conf?
> ..
>
> Does somebody know where is the glitch or i'm doing something wrong or
> missing something obvious?
>
>
Please ignore this mail thread as this seems to be a bug
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316049 - will use
dpkg-divert itself! Sorry.
--
Jaikumar
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