Re: Y or I, N or O
--- Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joseph Haig wrote:
> > --- Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:49 +0100, Joseph Haig wrote:
> >>
> >>>When upgrading with "apt-get upgrade" I get the option to install
> a
> >>
> >>new
> >>
> >>>configuration file or keep the existing one. The options are
> >>>
> >>> Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
> >>> N or O : keep your currently-installed version
> >>>
> >>>Now, I know that with either Y or I and N or O, both old and new
> >>>versions of the file are saved, but it doesn't say which! Which
> of
> >>
> >>N
> >>
> >>>or O do I need to use to save a copy of the new file?
> >>
> >>Either.
> >>
> >>If you choose Y, the existing configuration file will be saved as
> >><filename>.dpkg-old and replaced by the package's version.
> >>
> >>If you choose N, the existing configuration file will be left
> >>untouched
> >>and the new version will be saved in the same directory under the
> >>name
> >><filename>.dpkg-dist (or <filename>.dpkg-new).
> >
> >
> > Thanks. But if this is the case, what do I and O do?
>
> They decide which one is going to have the original name, right now.
>
> i.e. if you hit I, the the new one will be called <filename> and the
> old
> one will be called <filename>.dpkg-old, and if you start the program
> without changing anything (which is very likely to happen as most of
> the
> programs with global configuration files are daemons which are
> restarted
> immediately), then the package maintainer's configuration will be
> used
> immediately.
>
Thanks. What I meant was how does I differ from Y, and O differ from
N, because I originally thought that one option in each case would
delete the unused config file. Someone has already said that there is
no difference.
Bye,
Joe
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