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Originally Posted by thirdm
Thanks. Sounds like I can do more or less what I want without fearing my changes will get clobbered.
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What happens to config files when upgrading a package is something like this. If the new file differs from the existing one, it will be saved in the directory with an extension
.new . Such files are something to look out for, because they need to be dealt with.
If you never modified the existing file, and there is a .new version, you can just move it over because that's got changes from the upgrade. (You could, of course, review the differences to be sure you're OK with them.)
If you did modify the existing file, then you'll probably want to merge your changes into the .new file and use the result to replace the original file. Unless the .new file is the same as the _SRC file, where you can just delete the .new file.