Just for clarity:  In your upgrade procedure, are you uninstalling the 
package and then installing it again, or are you simply installing the 
new version on top of the old?

ramanujan oops wrote:
> "but if you make customizations, it will leave the file alone."
> 
> - Does Customizations here refer to changing the attributes of the file 
> or the contents of the file?
> 
> Because, I edited the old version of the file and added a few more lines 
> of data to it before adding the files into the newer version of my 
> package and had set a 'preserve' attribute to it too. But still, when I 
> installed the new package, my old file was overwritten.
> 
> The basic need here is to retain old/new file and discard the other file 
> file based on some constraint (as documented by the 'renameold', 
> 'renamenew', 'strawberry' options). However, I'm not able to achieve 
> that functionality. Request you to kindly throw some light here.
> 
> Appreciate your patience and support..
> 
> regards,
> Ram
> 
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Danek Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     The problem is that you haven't made any changes to the file.  pkg(5)
>     assumes that you want the file as delivered in the package, but if
>     you make
>     customizations, it will leave the file alone.  There's no good way
>     to tell
>     whether the user wants to keep the file as it was originally
>     delivered or
>     whether she wants to use whatever the package delivers.
> 
>     Danek
> 
> 
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