Hi,
> =====================================
> export LANG=C
> aptitude install pbuilder
> cp /etc/pbuilderrc /etc/pbuilderrc.bak
> echo >> /etc/pbuilderrc.bak
>
> ls -l /etc/pbu*
>
> aptitude purge pbuilder
> ls -l /etc/pbu*
> =====================================
>
> I wanted a backup of my pbuilderrc to survive the purge. For reasons unknown
> to
> me, /etc/pbuilderrc.bak was removed as well (the 'echo' command is just to
> ensure that the files are indeed different).
It looks like a default behavior of dpkg to remove such file on purge
lib/dpkg.h:
#define REMOVECONFFEXTS "~", ".bak", "%", \
DPKGTEMPEXT, DPKGNEWEXT, DPKGOLDEXT, DPKGDISTEXT
used in
src/remove.c
As documented in Debian Policy (as 'etc.')
6.8. Details of removal and/or configuration purging
----------------------------------------------------
5. The `conffile's and any backup files (`~'-files, `#*#' files,
`%'-files, `.dpkg-{old,new,tmp}', etc.) are removed.
regards,
junichi
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