Re: Does dpkg-divert work on conf files?
> Okay. In theory this works fine, however its not (very well) tested.
> If you try this I'm very interested to hear if it really works..
I've done something similar long time ago (diverted cron.daily/find to
cron.weekly/find) and it seems to work so far... However, I haven't
modified the conffile. Don't know what dpkg does if it finds a manual
change.
> The problem with diverting conffiles is that scripts (such as
> postinst) will still use the old location, so you have to be
> careful.
Yep, real problem...
Roman
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