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Alix Axel
Asked: 2013-11-29 00:57:56 +0800 CST

Prevent update-manager from overwriting my Configs

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After installing a package with apt-get and then overwriting some package specific config files, whenever the system upgrades itself it tries to overwrite my custom configs with the package default ones.

Is there a better way to specific custom configs without being asked if I want to reset to the default ones whenever the package updates itself?

ubuntu

1 Answers

  1. You can pass options to dpkg from apt. Interesting for you would be the option --force-confold. The command looks like this:

    apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" upgrade

    Setting --force-confdef as well makes apt-get still update the config file if it hasn't been edited, while --force-confold will keep edited configuration files without asking.

    To make this permanent, you can also set these options in your apt.conf file:

    Dpkg::Options {
   "--force-confdef";
   "--force-confold";
}

    Check e.g. http://debian-handbook.info/browse/wheezy/sect.package-meta-information.html#sidebar.questions-conffiles

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