On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:29:17 +0000, Roger Bell_West wrote:

> On 2020-02-25, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>Its dead easy to find these cases - just run "locate *.rpmnew" after
>>running "dnf update". and then using diff and your favourite editor to
>>reconcile the two. Can't think why Debian doesn't do something similar.
>
> Er, that's just what Debian does: gives you a choice of which file to
> have active, old or new, and leaves the other one available for
> inspection. (*.dpkg-old, *.dpkg-dist in this case.)
>
> If you want to combine a custom setting with always using the latest
> supplied config for the rest of the file, you need something a little
> more sophisticated than that. Manual editing, or something automated
> like Puppet or Ansible.

I've posted before I saw your correction - and I've never seen Debian do
that - possib;le because my RPi is in pretty much standard state - just
Postfix added and the sudo config tweaked to match my the way its set up
on my other Fedora boxen.


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