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Re: Dselect beginner



Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com> writes:
> While translating the dselect-beginner.sgml I found that the patch at the
> end of letter should be applied.

Yes, I applied it.

> 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.

Yes, I'm quite sure you are correct.

Thanks for the patch.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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