At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:36:38 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > I'm trying to set up a backup strategy. What I want to find > is all the configuration files for the various installed packages. > Some are obvious (/etc/apache/http.d.conf, /etc/passwd) Others are not > (/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/MoinMoin/config.py). > > Is there a way of extracting from the dpkg information a list of all > changed configuration files? Dpkg must know this info...
Those files tagged as conffiles are listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles, but there doesn't seem to be any way to know if one has changed (without unpacking a .deb and diffing). The debconf database is also a good thing to back up, its /var/cache/debconf/{config,passwords}.dat (by default). -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug