On 2005-09-25 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > No, you would only need to ship the *md5sum* of the old xfree86-common > conffile with the x11-common package, for comparison with the currently > installed version of the file.
Hello, That is currently not possible isn't? i.e. there is no way to tell dpkg "The previous md5sum of the conffile was ....".[1] I think this will need maintainerscript magic, similar to the one discussed in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.x/24539 and following. cu andreas [1] Afaict dpkg calculates the new conffile's md5sum at installation time, it is not even shipped in the .deb. -- "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
