Bug#248136: woody to sid upgrade pretend I have modified /etc/apache/httpd.conf

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:13:59AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> severity 248136 minor
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, 9 May 2004, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > Package: apache
> > Version: 1.3.29.0.2-7
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hello apache maintainers,
> >
> > When doing a clean woody to sid upgrade, ucf tell me
> > I have changed /etc/apache/httpd.conf.
> > This is not true and confusing.
> 
> How can be confusing? It is the only way to preserve all modification

Because it is not true, I really never changed that file. So I will look
at the file and never find what change I really made and end up
confused. Also that slow down the upgrade process for no reasons.

> since woody packages do not have any check over config files. They were
> not handled by ufc and they were not marked as configfiles.

> I am not aware of this. Can you tell me how can i be sure 100% that the
> files were not modified and preserve in case user modifications?

Yes, you give to ucf the md5sums of the woody version and ucf will skip
the prompt if that match. See "The default historical md5sum" in ucf
manpage. 

Cheers,
Bill.