Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:12:00 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Great! Looking forward.
Celejar
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