On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:51:46PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > However theses files are binaries files, not text files. They probably > do not beong in /etc in the first place but at least they should not be > marked as conffiles, since dpkg do not handle non-text conffiles in a > useful way: > > Setting up ncurses-base (5.4-8) ... > > Configuration file `/etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode' > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : background this process to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** rxvt-unicode (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? D > Binary files /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode and > /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode.dpkg-new differ
But they ARE conffiles! One of the reasons they're in /etc is so that the system administrator can modify them if desired. I'm sorry dpkg doesn't offer a way to specify a diff program usefully; infocmp would work fine. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
