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

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

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:08:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Jeronimo Pellegrini(pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br) is reported to have said:
> > (I'd like to back up diffs of modified files, as opposed to a full dump
> >  of /etc).
> 
> Not sure if I am understanding exactly what you want.  I _think_ you
> are looking for *.dpkg-dist config files.  If so then
> 
> find /etc -iname \*.dpkg-dist
> should do it.

Yes! Hey, that's nice.
But only some conffiles have a .dpkg-dist version. How are they created?
How can I be sure that all files taht I modified have a .dpkg-dist
equivalent?

I mean... If I install some package for the first time, I suppose there
is no .dpkg-dist version of its config files.

Thanks a lot!
J.