Re: dpkg-dist

[Chris <nws@cevnet.mine.nu>]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 21:29, John Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some configuration files in my /etc/pam.d that have the dpkg-dist 
> suffix.  Is is safe to copy the dpkg-dist version over the current version?  
> Once I copy over the dpkg-dist version and rename the current version, would 
> this confuse the package manager?
> 
No, it's a new version config-file, you told dpkg not to overwrite
yours.

More info: http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg/node23.html

Chris