Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2003-01-05 03:58:02 +0000]: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:23:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Of course, if apt-get ever updates dhclient, the package may overwrite > > /etc/dhclient-script, so keep a seperate copy!!!! > > No, it won't. /etc/dhclient-script is marked as a conffile, so if you've > made local changes then they will be preserved; you'll be prompted to > merge changes from the package's copy if there are any. How is it possible to know that it is marked as a conffile? Being a script I would not expect it to be conffile. But being in /etc/ I expect it would be a conffile. One can pull the package source and look in the debian directory for the dhcp-client.conffiles and see if it is listed there, or look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/dhcp-client.conffiles where it is installed. But I believe those are more complicated methods than the newbie would be expected to execute. Is there an easier way? I have not been able to find a way to, say, query dpkg's database for this information more directly. Thanks Bob
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