Bug#317279: fai: dpkg --force-confdef in apt.conf

2005-07-07 Thread Henning Glawe 
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:52:09PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> The "--force-confdef" caused heavy trouble on many systems when
> locally modified conffiles are overwritten (without any question) by
> Debian security updates.
>
> IMHO the default configuration should always ask me what I want or
> should at least keep the old (modified) configuration but should never
> overwrite my changes without asking me!

this must be a dpkg bug; in case of locally modified conffiles,
--force-confdef should keep the modified file.
could you send some log output of this misbehaviour?

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c u
henning


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Bug#317279: fai: dpkg --force-confdef in apt.conf

2005-07-07 Thread Roland Rosenfeld 
Package: fai
Version: 2.8.4
Severity: normal

/usr/share/fai/etc/apt.conf contains the following block:

DPkg 
{
  Options {
  "--abort-after=4711";   // a magic number in cologne ;-)
  "--force-confdef";
  }
};

The "--force-confdef" caused heavy trouble on many systems when
locally modified conffiles are overwritten (without any question) by
Debian security updates.

IMHO the default configuration should always ask me what I want or
should at least keep the old (modified) configuration but should never
overwrite my changes without asking me!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages fai depends on:
ii  libapt-pkg-perl   0.1.13 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  perl  5.8.4-8Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- no debconf information

Tscho

Roland


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