hi, > > an other aproach would be to use diff3 on the current > > conffile, conffile.dpkg-new and the new file from > > the archive to patch it. > > conffile.dpkg-new == new file from the archive of course you are right ;) > However, except if the user as made a backup > of the orig, the orig file no more exist. that should be handled by dpkg it should look if the old original conffile is available, merge user + maintainer changes if possible then store the new generated conffile and the new original file on disk location and naming scheme of these original files could be something like <conffile>.original or /var/lib/dpkg/original.conf/<package>/<conffile> how hard whould this be? (haven't had an insight look at dpkg yet) but i really think this would help to make unattended upgrades possible -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz // [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.home.pages.de] _________ ______________/// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /// dies ist eine manuell generierte mail, sie beinhaltet // tippfehler und ist auch ohne grossbuchstaben gueltig. /
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