On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:32:19AM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > > > So dpkg can't restore or even check which conffiles was modified. > > > It might be helpful feature. > > > > It can, it just doesn't report it to the user unless the package > > conffile changes (since that's the only time it really matters). > > I don't understand why dpkg didn't prompt me for conffile which was > changed. It was my previous example. Where is the problem? Does it work > only for upgrade?
As has been explained to you twice now, it only prompts if the conffile in the package has changed *and* you modified the local version. Local version modified, package version not changed: User keeps local. Local version intact, package version modified: user gets new version. Both versions changed: dpkg asks user. Jules
