Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-24 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 23 January 2013 16:58:52 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > But I cannot push this further all by myself. > > Poke the individual Debian maintainers - they're smart people :-) They are also busy people. They will be more likely to move if *their* users are complaining ;-) , or even better

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:26:05PM +, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give > > > > > > > > you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I > > > >

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give > > > > > > you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I > > > typically open up a different session and use vim/emacs to merge the > >

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-10 Thread Bob Proulx
David Guntner wrote: > Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote: > >> If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config > >> file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at > >> least go through the process manually. W

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote: >> If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config >> file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at >> least go through the process manually. What fun! > > It does. If you c

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread Dom
On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote: You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look through? Or something else? No - it will prompt interactively during in

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Johan Grönqvist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > 2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev: >> Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian? >> Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you >> since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new cont

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote: >> You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look >> through? Or something else? > > No - it will prompt interactively during installation. There are > options o

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev: Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian? Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content with an easy-to-search-for .something at the end?

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote: > >> Hi, all. > >> > >> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I > >> updated a package

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I >> updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified, >> urpmi was smart enough t

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote: > Hi, all. > > Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I > updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified, > urpmi was smart enough to realize it, and wouldn't just blindly wipe it > out.

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread darkestkhan
On Jan 8, 2013 3:43 PM, "David Guntner" wrote: > > Hi, all. > [snip] > > Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian? > Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you > since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content with > an easy

What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 Thread David Guntner
Hi, all. Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified, urpmi was smart enough to realize it, and wouldn't just blindly wipe it out. Instead, it would create a new copy for you to look over and merge. I.E.