On Wednesday 23 January 2013 16:58:52 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > But I cannot push this further all by myself.
>
> Poke the individual Debian maintainers - they're smart people :-)
They are also busy people. They will be more likely to move if *their* users
are complaining ;-) , or even better
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:26:05PM +, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > > > - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give
> > > >
> > > > you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I
> > > >
On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:39:40 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > > - If you have modified the configuration, most interfaces will give
> > >
> > > you a diff between your current configuration and ask what to do. I
> > > typically open up a different session and use vim/emacs to merge the
> >
David Guntner wrote:
> Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote:
> >> If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config
> >> file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at
> >> least go through the process manually. W
Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote:
>> If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config
>> file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at
>> least go through the process manually. What fun!
>
> It does. If you c
On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote:
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote:
You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look
through? Or something else?
No - it will prompt interactively during in
Johan Grönqvist grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> 2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev:
>> Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian?
>> Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you
>> since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new cont
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote:
>> You mean there will be a bunch of .diff files for you to have to look
>> through? Or something else?
>
> No - it will prompt interactively during installation. There are
> options o
2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev:
Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian?
Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you
since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content with
an easy-to-search-for .something at the end?
Hi
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:29:02PM +, David Guntner wrote:
> Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote:
> >> Hi, all.
> >>
> >> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
> >> updated a package
Karl E. Jorgensen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
>> updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified,
>> urpmi was smart enough t
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:42:30PM +, David Guntner wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
> updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified,
> urpmi was smart enough to realize it, and wouldn't just blindly wipe it
> out.
t put the new content with
> an easy-to-search-for .something at the end?
>
Yes - modified config files are not overwritten (unless you choose to in
the upgrade process when asked by apt about what to do with given conf
file). The new file (or old if you choose to overwrite) will be saved in
Hi, all.
Back in the days when I was using Mandriva (which RPM-based), when I
updated a package that had a configuration file that I had modified,
urpmi was smart enough to realize it, and wouldn't just blindly wipe it
out. Instead, it would create a new copy for you to look over and
merge. I.E.
Paul Cager wrote:
>Cameron Hutchison wrote:
>> Chris Stork wrote:
>>
>>> What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
>>> changed on my system?
>.
>> Unfortunately it is not as useful as I had hope it would be because a
>> lot of packages do not ship with a .md5sums file
Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Chris Stork wrote:
>
>> What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
>> changed on my system?
>
.
> Unfortunately it is not as useful as I had hope it would be because a
> lot of packages do not ship with a .md5sums file in /var/lib/dpkg/info
>
Chris Stork wrote:
>What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
>changed on my system?
I use the following script I wrote some time ago. It uses the file in
/var/lib/dpkg/info to determine which files are conffiles (*.conffiles)
and what the md5sum of the file was as distri
On 12/17/06, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Dec 17, 2006, at 5:32 AM, Chris Stork wrote:
> Douglas Tutty wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:52:19AM +0100, Chris Stork wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
>>> changed on my system
On Dec 17, 2006, at 5:32 AM, Chris Stork wrote:
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:52:19AM +0100, Chris Stork wrote:
Hi,
What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
changed on my system?
Find a file that was created/modified when you installed. Note
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:52:19AM +0100, Chris Stork wrote:
Hi,
What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
changed on my system?
Find a file that was created/modified when you installed. Note that
date.
Use find to find all files in /etc/ n
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:52:19AM +0100, Chris Stork wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
> changed on my system?
>
Find a file that was created/modified when you installed. Note that
date.
Use find to find all files in /etc/ newer than that date
Hi,
What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been
changed on my system?
Thanks,
Chris
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