[Cialug] Upgrade questions

[James Shoemaker]

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Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> 
>> My main question is this ... how do I really do upgrades of the
>> operating system without it affecting my data and configuration files
>> for different services?
> 
> 
> some handle changed config files differently.  debian will notice your
> config changed, and ask if you want to keep yours, install the
> maintainer's version, or diff them.  mandrake/redhat will keep yours,
> and install the new as package.conf.rpmnew (or similar)

	Sometimes deb will even do someting intelligent, it offered to run my
sendmail.mc through m4 for the newer version of sendmail for me.  I
think some of it is up to the package maintainer.

James
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