Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 18:20:37 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> > Personally, what I do in response to such a prompt is to have it show me
> > a diff of the two files, and then if the changes involve losing any
> > settings want to retain, I have it give me a shell prompt (or use
> > another shell I have independently) to make a copy of the existing file.
> > I then let it install the maintainer's version, diff the old version
> > against that separately, and immediately use that diff as the basis for
> > editing the newly-installed maintainer's version to include the changes
> > I want to keep.
> >
>
> What I do is keep my current version, then when the upgrade is done, create
> a new package that diverts the conffile for the debian package and has my
> modified file (where I've forgotten to do this when I originally needed to
> edit the file)
What I usually do is keep my current version, and then maybe some time
in the future, if I feel like it, I'll take a look at the *.dpkg-new
(or whatever it's called) file which contains the proposed new changes,
and see whether I want to attempt to merge those changes with mine.
Most of the time, however, I'll simply continue using my modified file
from umpteen versions ago, until something happens which makes that no
longer possible. Or until I discard that computer and replace it with
a new machine, at which point I'll need to start from a new version of
the file and recreate my local changes.
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