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



On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> 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.
Hi J,
if you dont get a satisfactory answer here, you may try the
debian-mentors (a list for debian package help)  or debian-devel (a list
for discussion of debian development) mailing list.
cheers,
Kev
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