[Techtalk] help meee epson scanner Dapper die hotplug die

[Carla Schroder]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 6:33 am, Wim De Smet wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> > hey all,
> >[...]
> > - edited /etc/sane.d/epson.conf appropriately, and I am very unhappy that 
the
> > upgrade stomped most of my configs
> >[...]
> 
> This seems a bit weird, apt normally doesn't do that. Did it perchance
> move the old configs out of the way, like blah.conf.<longdate> or
> blah.conf.dpkg-old? I'm not sure why it would just chuck the old
> configs out, unless the dist-upgrade was run with --assume-yes. (which
> would be a Bad Thing(tm))
> 

Well now, that's a funny thing, because I never configure it to --assume-yes, 
which means answering a lot of questions, and I always say 'keep existing 
config.' But it stomped them anyway. Looks like it's time to dig out the 
install logs and see what happened.

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