Dselect beginner
Hello,
While translating the dselect-beginner.sgml I found that the patch at the
end of letter should be applied.
Actually, it raises a question. I believed (using Debian for few years) that
.dpkg-dist file is the one which appears <em>after</em> configuration stage. I
quickly checked the documentation but found nothing about this. Well, what I
think happens is as in my example. Let's suppose we have a configuration file
/path/to/conffile, after unpacking the dpkg creates a file
/path/to/conffile.dpkg-new. If I decide to install new configurationn file,
the current file gets renamed to /path/to/conffile.dpkg-old, and the new one to
/path/to/conffile. If I decide to keep my current configuration, the new file
gets renamed to /path/to/conffile.dpkg-dist. If my understanding is correct,
the the included patch should be applied.
Cheers,
--
Mike
--- dselect-beginner.sgml Fri Mar 19 10:46:54 1999
+++ dselect-beginner.sgml.new Wed Apr 21 17:12:17 1999
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@
get asked to make decisions as you go. It is often useful to switch to
a different shell to compare, say, an old config with a new one. If
the old file is <file>conf.modules</file> the new one will be
-<file>conf.modules.dpkg-dist</file>.
+<file>conf.modules.dpkg-new</file>.
<p>
The screen scrolls past fairly quickly on a fast machine. You can
stop/start it with <em>Control-s</em>/<em>Control-q</em> and at the
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