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

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:58:20 -0500
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> 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.
> 
> Yes, but neither choice is entirely satisfactory; if I keep my
> version, I don't get any improvements the devs / maints have made,
> and if I choose the new one, I (may) have to redo my changes. It is
> therefore preferable to make changes through dpkg-reconfigure to
> avoid this problem.

There is work in progress for a third option to merge the new stuff
with the customized config.

Regards,
Andrei
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