Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:07:59PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:33:10PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hi. I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all to get the original conffile for an installed .deb. Is this information stored in

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Jeronimo Pellegrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi. I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all to get the original conffile for an installed .deb. Is this information stored in the installed system somewhere? (Other than /var/cache/apt/archives,

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:08:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Jeronimo Pellegrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: (I'd like to back up diffs of modified files, as opposed to a full dump of /etc). Not sure if I am understanding exactly what you want. I _think_ you are looking

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:08:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Jeronimo Pellegrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: (I'd like to back up diffs of modified files, as opposed to a full dump of /etc). Not

Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-13 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all to get the original conffile for an installed .deb. Is this information stored in the installed system somewhere? (Other than /var/cache/apt/archives, which does not necessarily have the .deb anymore) Given a package, I know

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:33:10PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hi. I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all to get the original conffile for an installed .deb. Is this information stored in the installed system somewhere? (Other than