Updating configuration files

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 09, 2011, at 07:14 PM, sean finney wrote:

>hi barry,
>
>On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:22:16AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> Has anybody thought about porting this nice behavior to Debian/Ubuntu?
>
>the problem is that dpkg does not keep track of the original "pristine"
>version of the conffile, so there's no 3rd version for the 3 way merge.
>
>some time ago i brought this up on dpkg-dev and even provided patches
>providing exactly this feature, but the dpkg maintainer didn't really
>seem interested.

Hi Sean, thanks for the info.  That's too bad because I think it would be
really useful.  I'll make due with the etckeeper workaround.

Are your patches still available?  I'd love to take a look just for kicks.

Cheers,
-Barry
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