Re: dpkg conffiles weirdness

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:54:02AM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> MoiN
> 
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:25:43PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I tried reinstating the old xterm conffile and reinstalling version
> > 3.3.6-7, but now the conffile wasn't touched.  I then tried deleting
> > the conffile and reinstalling; no conffile was installed at all this
> > time.  Purging and reinstalling reinstalled the conffile, but nothing
> > less would do so.
> 
> dpkg keeps track of the original conffiles from the package. It
> stores the md5 checksum of the package's conffiles. Only if the
> md5sum changes dpkg tries to install the new configuration file
> by checking the old md5 checksum against the one of the installed
> file. dpkg then installs the new config file (on user request
> with an additional .dpkg-new) and updates the internal checksum.

Duh!  I forgot I'd never tweaked the file myself!

(Runs into a corner in embarrassment.)

   Julian

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