hey james, On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 22:27 -0400, James Vega wrote: > It should just be a matter of removing the files from the old package > and letting the new ones take their place (with a backup if there are > any user changes). A little grepping around in /var/lib/dpkg/info > turned up this snippet for removing conffiles. thanks for the suggestion, but if it's a choice between this and ucf, i think ucf would be the lesser of two evils. as a general rule relying on /var/lib/dpkg/anything should be greatly frowned upon. what you suggest *would* work (though in the case that the file is modified it could be kept there instead of made into a backup copy), i can't in good conscience implement something like that. i suppose i could store the md5sums of the conffiles in a seperate file that is guaranteed to exist, but then i'm on my way to reimplementing ucf and might as well just use ucf then. thanks, sean
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