Re: newbie question on finding and keeping customized files with dpkg or apt

["Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)" <sumo.wrestler.0rj82m+no.spam.abuse@earthlink.net>]

Marco Prandini wrote:
> [...]
> 1) I'd like to find which files of a package have been altered with 
> respect to the original version, in the same way I did with "rpm -V".
> 2) I'd like to instruct "apt-get upgrade" to leave them alone

For 2) you can use dpkg-divert to tell dpkg (the low-level packaging 
system) to divert installations of a file from the default location to 
an alternate location. See "man dpkg-divert".

HTH
Sumo