On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:54:09PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Justin Pryzby]
> > > The problem here is that we didn't forcibly add the md5sum of the > > > previous non-ucf file to the ucf database. So it was marked as > > > modified, then you didn't install any new config file version handled > > > by ucf, so it kept thinking it was manually generated. > > Can you fix it in the preinst, by adding it now? > > Won't help. We cannot tell the difference, as Guillem said, between a > file converted to ucf in sarge and later modified by hand, and a file > converted to ucf in sarge and *not* later modified by hand. Are you talking about the case that the file is at some defualt-ish "version" 1, then updated to v2, then to v3, and then the admin manually "updates" in such a way that it happens to be identical to v2? > > As above, isn't the md5sum of the previous nonucf file known? > > What md5sum? The one corresponding to the woody /etc/gpm.conf on your > computer? woody? I haven't run woody on this machine in forever .. possibly never. The file might have been "the one woody used" though, I guess. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]