On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:42:15PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.2.1-12.1 > Severity: minor > > When doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, I went > through the LONG set of answers and then after the last one, I was told: > "XF86Config-4 was modified not writting it". > > This is awful. I think this message should be at the beginning, not at > the end, after I had spent about 5 minutes selecting the options. > > Also, it would be nice if the message that's in the file (I found it > afterwards) would be repeated there: > > # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated > # again, run the following commands as root: > # > # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom > # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum > # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 If it's any consolation, your answers were not thrown away. They're in the debconf database. To write your XF86Config-4 using them, do this: # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # dexconf -- G. Branden Robinson | There's nothing an agnostic can't Debian GNU/Linux | do if he doesn't know whether he branden@debian.org | believes in it or not. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Graham Chapman
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