on Thursday 01/01/2009 Nikos Chantziaras([email protected]) wrote
> John covici wrote:
>
> > Also, if I want to roll back, say, /etc/init.d/fsck, I am not sure
> > which file to choose -- in the archive directory there is an
> > /etc/init.d directory which contains fsck and fsck.dist. I would
> > imagine that fsck is my old one and fsck.dist is the new one -- now
> > what happens if this file is updated again?
>
> No, that is not how it works. New files have the prefix "._" (as is
> also reported by dispatch-conf.)
>
> ".dist" is usually a file that is bundled with the upstream tarball. It
> usually serves as an example.
>
> You cannot roll back if you choose to keep the new file with
> dispatch-conf and didn't backup the current one first.
>
Then what is the purpose of the config-archive directory which I was
asked to create?
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