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Re: Editing conffiles?



On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 04:10:34PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote:

> Would it be sufficient to check the md5sum of the configuration file
> first, and only edit it if it matches the one I'm distributing?  Or do

That's effectively what making the file a conffile does except for
offering to allow the user to take the new configuration file or not if
they've changed it.

> I really have to point the user at a set of example configuration
> files in /usr/share/doc?

Why is that such a problem?

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