Re: semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 22:22:14 Malte Forkel wrote: > In the end, I would like to write a simple merge skript for > configuration files. This has been suggested before, e.g. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=32877. Has anybody > already implemented this? ucf is able to perform

Re: semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-05 Thread Malte Forkel
Sven Joachim schrieb: > On 2010-01-05 17:48 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > >> When upgrading a package, the user can specify how a configuration file >> should be handled that has been modified on the local systems. >> >> Depending on the user's choice, a file with the extension dpkg-old, >> dpkg-ne

Re: semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-05 17:48 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > When upgrading a package, the user can specify how a configuration file > should be handled that has been modified on the local systems. > > Depending on the user's choice, a file with the extension dpkg-old, > dpkg-new or dpkg-dist might be created

semantics of dpkg-* configuration file backups

2010-01-05 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, When upgrading a package, the user can specify how a configuration file should be handled that has been modified on the local systems. Depending on the user's choice, a file with the extension dpkg-old, dpkg-new or dpkg-dist might be created besides the configuration file. Could someone pleas