Thanks a lot Joey. You were completely right, dpkg handles the situation perfectly.
Regards, Alberto On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:59:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a > > conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version > > in case it exists now. Or will it? > > I think dpkg handles this ok, and compares the md5sum of the existing > file (if any) with the md5sum of the new file. It may result in an extra > prompt for the user. Experiment and find out. -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (Patrick Henry)

