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Re: Overwriting conf-files (dpkg-divert them or not?)



On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:21:36PM +0000, debacle wrote:

> for a local package (non-official, non-Debian, my-pet-admin-only) I want
> to overwrite a number of conffiles belonging to other packages.  Certainly
> this is bad style anyway, but it seems to fit.  Of course, I don't want to
> kill the original files permanently, so I think dpkg-diverting them is the
> right way.  Are there any issues when dpkg-diverting conffiles?

Yes, don't do it.  Search the list archives; this has come up several times.

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 - mdz



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