Re: What to expect following major update

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de> writes:

>> 3) About etc resolv.conf being rendered useless during update: That
>>    two seems like it should be bug 
>>   
> Could you check that you don't have resolvconf installed ?
> if yes than you should configure it or remove ...
>>    I pulled out an old backup with the right stuff in it and overwrote
>>    /etc/resolv.conf. I then proceeded to make the file imutable with
>>    chattr -i.
             ^+i

Yes there is a directory with that name and several files in
it... what is that stuff?

And look at this:

   aptitude search resolvconf
    p   resolvconf                 - name server information handler  

Its not installed and I've never installed it, and yet I have the
directory with files inside.

I created a handmade /etc/resolv.conf, shortly after installing
debian.

I get an IP thru dhcp... maybe that is whats going on?

It was overwritten once before and I rewrote it.  That was some time
back.  Far as I know it has worked ever since.  Through quite a few
smaller updates.  Todays' was rather a large one (187 pkgs)

Several update rounds had been backed up due to lingering problems
getting rid of backuppc.. which was interfering with updates.