Re: Checking for changed conffiles
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Anselm Lingnau wrote:
> Do we have a clever way of checking which conffiles have changed from
> their default state? I can get a list of the conffiles on the system
> easily enough but I don't see an obvious way of checking whether they're
> different from when the package was first unpacked, since they don't
> show up in the MD5 sum listings. (I'd rather not look into the original
> packages for comparisons against the virgin conffiles if that is
> avoidable.)
Something like this?
% dpkg --status exim
Package: exim
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 861
Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
Version: 1.92-3
Replaces: mail-transport-agent
Provides: mail-transport-agent
Depends: libc6, libpcre1, cron (>= 3.0pl1-42)
Suggests: mail-reader, eximon
Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
Conffiles:
/etc/init.d/exim f5f1fcddf5b4e8366b279b8b7e34b345
/etc/cron.daily/exim c5d0d99966397e42184658bc5e2c2c3f
/etc/cron.d/exim e8739a5bc032fa87d9ffeb8252de5dbc
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim b3875ed036bd9e2a22bb6e1c6f0b4acc
Description: Exim Mailer
This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail.
It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp.
Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from
known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue processing
algorithm.
The pristine md5sums are there, in the conffiles section. If dpkg
--status si too slow for you, you can just get the md5sums direct from
/var/lib/dpkg/status, although this will guarantee that your program
breaks when we change the dpkg database format :-)
Jules
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