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Re: moving conffiles



According to Rob Browning:
> Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there anything special that needs to be done when changing the
> > filenames of conffiles, to ensure that either the old conffile gets
> > removed, and that the new conffile inherits changes the user made to the
> > old?
> 
> I'd be interested in the answer to this as well.  I may have to do
> something similar in the future.

Copy the old config file to the new location in the preinst script. 

Mike.
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