Re: Backups in maintainer scripts

2004-12-09 Thread Frank Küster
Diogo Kollross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I'm replacing files in the maintainer script of a > package, but I would like to maintain backups of these > files. Is there any good practice about that (eg: like > renaming the old file to filename~ or filename.old)? filename~ looks like an Emacs ba

Backups in maintainer scripts

2004-12-08 Thread Diogo Kollross
I'm replacing files in the maintainer script of a package, but I would like to maintain backups of these files. Is there any good practice about that (eg: like renaming the old file to filename~ or filename.old)? I would also like to know if dpkg makes any backups when installing packages, and if