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Re: Problems with logrotation



On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:35:30 +0200, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> said:
>
> Now if this given package is updated, dpkg will not find the moved
> file, an d will happily install the new version distributed in the
> .deb file - and the old one will still exist.

Not to detract from the rest of what you say, but this is not the case
(or if it is the case, it's just a bug).  Quoting from the packaging
manual:

     However, note that `dpkg' will _not_ replace a conffile that was
     removed by the user (or by a script).

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org


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