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Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?



On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 14:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Manual changes to conffiles are preserved.
> 
> Celejar writes:
> > Yes, but if you edit it by hand, then it won't be updated when a new
> > version becomes available.
> 
> You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or replacing it with
> the new version.

I always look at the "diff", and make a decision. In any case the "new"
if you choose to love the one you got, will be <conffile>.dpkg-new.
-- 
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net

Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's
Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive
product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at
the playfield. -- Thane Walkup



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