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



Hi Marco, if it is enough for you to just check for MD5 sums then use
the debsums program, it does that for you.

Cheers

Oli

Þann 2006-04-14, 18:04:03 (+0200) skrifaði Marco Prandini:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm switching to Debian after a long time on RedHat, and I haven't been 
> able to find a couple of functions of the package manager I'd like to 
> use... hoping they exist at all!
> 
> 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
> 
> That's because I didn't resist the urge to make some customization to my 
> system, and I don't want them to be overwritten by the upgrade procedure.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
>  Marco
> 
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