update FAI-installed system

[Henning Glawe]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> although re-installation in most cases might be suitable (and ensures that
> all computers will get the same software versions as long as the mirror is
> frozen), from time to time I have to do upgrades, in particular on 
> solitary machines.
> If I only call "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" almost no questions would
> be asked, and I'm afraid that configuration files that have been adjusted
> by a FAI script/* would also be silently overwritten.
> Is that true (or am I just paranoid)?
> How can I avoid overwriting config files changed by me without asking?
> How are others handling this situation?

if the adjusted files are conffiles (in the dpkg sense), then dpkg will ask
before overwriting them.
( as the dpkg "default" selection is (almost) always right,
'force-confdef' in /etc/dpkg.cfg will make dpkg ask only if there is no
sensible default. )

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henning