On 8-Mar-09, at 8:48 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009, Tony Mantler wrote:

On 7-Mar-09, at 2:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

What processes do you see in "ps auxf" while dpkg displays a diff?

Is there a quick way to force dpkg into displaying a configfile diff?

Not really, purge a package with a configuration file, manuall create one
of the configuration file of that package and reinstall that package.


Ok, here we go.

root 11874 6.9 4.6 94168 48324 pts/6 Sl+ 11:10 0:06 | \_ aptitude root 12030 0.4 0.4 5776 4240 pts/8 Ss+ 11:12 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 26 --configure dovecot- common dovecot-imapd root 12031 0.0 0.1 2968 1268 pts/8 S+ 11:12 0:00 | \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/dovecot- common.postinst configure 1:1.1.11-4 root 12032 2.2 0.9 11728 9748 pts/8 S+ 11:12 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/ frontend /usr/bin/ucf /usr/share/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/ dovecot.conf root 12058 0.0 0.1 3076 1436 pts/8 S+ 11:12 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash /usr/bin/ucf /usr/share/ dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf root 12087 0.0 0.1 3936 1848 pts/8 S+ 11:12 0:00 | \_ whiptail --backtitle Package configuration --title Modified configuration file --output-fd 11 -- nocancel --default-item keep the local version currently installed -- menu A new version of configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf is available, but the version installed currently has been locally modified.??What would you like to do about dovecot.conf? 15 143 5 -- install the package maintainer's version keep the local version currently installed show the differences between the versions show a side-by-side difference between the versions start a new shell to examine the situation

Strangely it shows this curses interface when I upgrade dovecot-imapd, but when I tried it on python-moinmoin it showed the regular terminal/ less interface.


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