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Subject: fai: dpkg --force-confdef in apt.conf
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Package: fai
Version: 2.8.4
Severity: normal
/usr/share/fai/etc/apt.conf contains the following block:
DPkg
{
Options {
"--abort-after=4711"; // a magic number in cologne ;-)
"--force-confdef";
}
};
The "--force-confdef" caused heavy trouble on many systems when
locally modified conffiles are overwritten (without any question) by
Debian security updates.
IMHO the default configuration should always ask me what I want or
should at least keep the old (modified) configuration but should never
overwrite my changes without asking me!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages fai depends on:
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.13 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- no debconf information
Tschoeeee
Roland
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Henning Glawe schrieb am Donnerstag, den 07. Juli 2005:
> > The "--force-confdef" caused heavy trouble on many systems when
> > locally modified conffiles are overwritten (without any question) by
> > Debian security updates.
> >
> > IMHO the default configuration should always ask me what I want or
> > should at least keep the old (modified) configuration but should never
> > overwrite my changes without asking me!
>
> this must be a dpkg bug; in case of locally modified conffiles,
> --force-confdef should keep the modified file.
> could you send some log output of this misbehaviour?
Okay, forget my bug report, which I wrote based on a new version of
fai, while my problems where caused by an old version of fai. In fai
2.8 changelog I read:
* apt.conf: replace force-confnew with force-confdef
And the force-confnew caused my problem. I didn't look deeper on this
and simply copy&pasted the fixed configuration above.
So I close this bug report now.
Tschoeeee
Roland
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