peter, the redhat and debian packages define a set of files as 'configuration' files. these are files that are distributed in weewx, and any of those files that are modified will result in a "something changed, do you want to keep your changes or accept the new version" prompt.
nominally this is the weewx.conf file and the 'extensions.py' file. on redhat systems, the entire 'skins' directory (/etc/weewx/skins) is also this way, but only for files that are part of the weewx distribution. if you add your own skin, it won't be recognized this way. on debian systems, it apparently behaves the same way, but i cannot for the life of me remember how i made that happen (usually it is the debian/conffiles file, but skins is not in there!) anyway, when you get one of these prompts, the package manager will always save a copy of the file you did not choose. on redhat it shows up as .rpmnew or .rpmsave. on debian it shows up as .dpkg-dist or some such. that way you can always compare to see what you did not choose. m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a16f1c3a-af2e-460d-8ab5-5168dc3b2b00n%40googlegroups.com.
