On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 04:38:57PM -0800, Mark Lanett wrote: > The woody packages complained about several scripts which were part of > potato installs which I did not change. These were > /etc/pam.d/login > /etc/manpath.config > /etc/lynx.cfg > among others.
/etc/lynx.cfg used to be listed as a conffile *and* modified during installation, which was bad and would cause this behaviour. man-db used to try to be clever about /etc/manpath.config too. Both of these packages are now fixed, but the potato->woody transition will still look like this. I don't know about /etc/pam.d/login. > It asked me if I wanted to diff, keep original, install new, etc. I > chose to install the new one. The default is to keep the original, > which seems to me to be wrong. Why would I want a new package with an > old config file? This is the right default. Configuration files are usually backwards-compatible, so keeping the old file means that your local changes will be preserved and you should (dpkg guesses) still have a more-or-less-working configuration file. The conffile system doesn't expect that it'll have to ask you about files which you haven't changed locally. > dist-upgrade did not upgrade my kernel, it left me at 2.2. I had to > pick and choose a 2.4 kernel separately. The packaging system never upgrades your kernel automatically. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
