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Hi Jeff, 2013-11-08 23:32 Jeff Harris:
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 Severity: normal In my specific example, I am upgrading PHP. " A new version of configuration file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini is available, but the version installed currently has been locally modified. What do you want to do about modified configuration file php.ini? 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 " Here is what I need to do: Save the package maintainer's version as... * a file in my $USER directory * a patch file in my $USER directory or, a note that says "the package maintainer's version is saved as ... " so it can be found later. I don't want to lose my modifications, but I want to know what the package maintainer thinks is important enough to be in the new configuration file, and I want to do it on my schedule.
You can review the changes proposed/needed with the options "show differences" above. Perhaps the new version of the program to be installed cannot work well with the local config modifications, or needs new defaults coming from the maintainer version, so a decision has to be made at that point, not deferred for later (otherwise, the program might stop working). In any case the program that shows this is dpkg, debconf or programs called by them, not aptitude itself. So I am afraid that we cannot do anything about this.
Also, staring a new shell doesn't work on a remote machine: "No terminal, and no DISPLAY set, can't fork shell."
This doesn't come from aptitude either. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
