[PATCH] no config file overwrite for dpkg

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 27 17:02:16 UTC 2010


On Thursday 18 February 2010 17:13, Kim B. Heino wrote:
> This patch adds new option for dpkg:
> 
>   By default dpkg will overwrite existing config files when
>   upgrading. With this feature enabled new config files will be
>   created as filename.dpkg-new.

I understand why is this useful. I wonder how "real" dpkg
handles this? Does it have an option which enables this?
Or does it always create filename.dpkg-new files?

-- 
vda


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