Re: [PATCH] added --force-* options for conffile handling

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

* "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:

Ben> +      /* When prompting we check for some of the force options. There are
Ben> +       * several cases in which these occur.
Ben> +       *  - We have --force-confnew, in which we always use the new config file
Ben> +       *  - We have --force-confold, in which we always use the old config file
Ben> +       *  - We have --force-confdef, in which we always use the default action
Ben> +       *    if there is one. Note, there are cases where we will still prompt
Ben> +       *  - If we have --force-confdef and one of the others (new/old) then we
Ben> +       *    always use the default where we can. If there is no default, then we
Ben> +       *    use the new or old, depending on which --force-conf{old,new} was used.
Ben> +       */

Great, just what me and many others have waited for. Whatever patch is 
finaly included, I hope it will make it into potato. 

I would just love not to be asked on upgrade (I want to always keep my
config and merge changes on my own).

The final thing will be when all messages in postinst are written to
some file, so they won't scroll by unseen on mass upgrade, and no
message with "press return to continue" will be necessary any more.

Ciao,
	Martin