On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:23:40PM +1100, Taryn East wrote:
> now I don't remember ever editing any of these (apart from crontab) so I
> don't know what changed so I hit no to all of them...

You can hit 'd' to show what the changes between the two versions are.  Very
handy, since I have the same problem you do -- "I changed that file?  I
don't think so, let's have a look..."

> but I'm pretty sure some of them could have easily been replaced without
> being a problem - and maybe it would have been a good idea to just
> install them anyway.

Any file which the system is fairly certain you haven't changed are
automatically updated.

> however, now I'm not sure which files they were or how to update them -
> is there any way to be able to tell which files are not the latest?
> (I've tried just running dist-upgrade again, but that doesn't do
> anything more.

When the system handles one of these "conflicts", a new file will be created
-- either <conffile>.dpkg-new (if you chose to keep your version) or
<conffile>.dpkg-old (if you chose to replace your version).  So, you can
easily find all files you decided not to replace by a command like this:

find /etc -name \*.dpkg-new

And then go and have a look at them all and decide if you want to manually
replace them or not.

- Matt

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