Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>]

Aaron Maxwell <amaxwell@phy.ucsf.edu> writes:

> > 1) When this is all done, will settings in /etc, such as my network
> > settings be changed?
> 
> apt-get always asks you before overwriting a /etc file.  Just select 'no'
> (the default, iirc) and it will leave the /etc settings untouched.  (It
> will do this for each /etc/ file separately, so you can clobber some and
> not others.)  Also, I believe apt-get makes backups of /etc files you tell
> it to overwrite (someone correct me if i'm wrong?)

>From scant experience, the new conffile gets a .dpkg-dist suffix if
you choose to keep the old one.  If you replace the old one it gets a
.dpkg-old suffix tagged on.  For just a look on what junk is floating
around:

  find /etc -name '*.dpkg*'

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Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development