Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:07:59PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:33:10PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all
> > to get the original conffile for an installed .deb.
> > 
> > Is this information stored in the installed system somewhere? (Other
> > than /var/cache/apt/archives, which does not necessarily have the .deb
> > anymore)
> Hi Jeronimo,
> if you are looking for old version of .deb packages, they can (usually)
> be found on snapshot.debian.net. 

Hi Kevin.

Actually, I wanted my backup script to find the original conffiles
without having to connect to snapshot.debian.net or anywhere else...
I suppose this is impossible? Is the conffile stored on my host,
somewhere?

Thanks,
J.