Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:15:47 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > SSH config files are located in /etc, too. But admins are expected to
> > > > make changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/, and not /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
> > >
> > > That's definitely false.
> >
> > You will absolutely lose your sshd_config when the package is upgraded
> > and you choose the maintainers version of the file.
>
> No.
>
> You will be asked, as for every conffile.

Please don't do that selective quoting found in dumpster fires like
social media: "... and you choose the maintainers version of the
file."

> Of course, the .d construction is the recommended way these days,
> but it is actually more important for *other* packages making
> changes to the config. That's why it was introduced in the first
> place.

Anyone who keeps a downlevel version of their config files -- instead
of accepting the latest version from the maintainer -- deserves any
problems they encounter.

Jeff