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Support Debian / Ubuntu #1

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hahnjo opened this issue Jun 19, 2018 · 1 comment
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Support Debian / Ubuntu #1

hahnjo opened this issue Jun 19, 2018 · 1 comment
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hahnjo commented Jun 19, 2018

Find out if apt also has a .*new scheme for configuration files.
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hahnjo commented Oct 29, 2022

Yes, a similar concept exists with dpkg, see https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-configuration-file-managed-by-dpkg/

However, it's a bit more complicated than Arch Linux and CentOS and the user is presented with a choice: If they want to keep the existing version of a configuration file, the new version is installed with the extension .dpkg-dist. This could be used by DynConf. But if they choose to immediately install the new version, the old version is renamed to .dpkg-old. If you now run DynConf and there already is an .orig file, it will restore the (modified) original version and overwrite the new version...

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