On Fri, Dec 19 1997 20:37 GMT Adrian Bridgett writes: > What about "dpkg-divert"? Sure - some people do edit /etc/init.d/whatever > (particularly "network"), however there are many files in /etc/init.d that > the vast majority of people won't change. If some behaviour needs to change, > they may not install the new version (I normally say "N" to replace > conffiles and then go through manually to see what's changed).
AFAIK, dpkg does only ask when the md5sum of the conffile changed. So if it didn't change, you get the old version. David
