|--==> Matthew Palmer writes: MP> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] MP> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:29:38PM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: >>When running apt-get dist-upgrade I'd like to be able to set a list of >>packages whose confiles shall be replaced by the newer versions >>supplied by the package (if any) , while other packages' confiles >>should be keep the locally modified version. >> >>Is this possible?
MP> Not that I know of, but it would be an interesting modification to make to MP> dpkg (which is the program that manages the replacement of modified MP> conffiles). Yes, I think so. There are the dpkg --force-conf(new|old|default) options, which you can tell apt-get to use with DPpk::Options, but as I guess apt-get dist-upgrade calls dpkg with all packages at once, you can't select for which packages use the force-conf option and for which not. Cheers, Free
