On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 12:54 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi Svante, > > On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 17:58 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > After upgrading to sid the conffiles don't seem to be installed any > > longer? > > I think it would be nice to make restoring the original configuration > easier. The various --force-conf* options by dpkg are not easily > discovered and require the binary package (*.deb) to still be > available. > > Having the original configuration available also would allow to > easier > generate a "diff" of local changes. This makes it easier to support > systems usually maintained by different people, or even systems not > using a configuration management system in general.
etckeeper helps with some aspects of that sort of thing. I think it would be really cool if etckeeper could create and maintain a dpkg-dist branch with all the pristine stuff in it, no idea what hooks or integration would be needed for that though! Ian.
