[mythtv-users] Happy in 0.27

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Sat Sep 28 22:35:55 UTC 2013


On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/28/2013 03:36 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> Mid way I
>>>
>>> was presented with an option to overwrite or leave a change to some
>>> file (can't remember exactly which one) and because of recent changes
>>> I had made  I opted to leave it, I assume I wouldn't been offered this
>>> option had I used the command line?
>>
>>
>> I *always* keep a list of any changes suggested by the package manager
>> when doing an upgrade. Ignoring them has caused huge problems on this
>> list. Too late now, but next time keep track. You should also have seen
>> the option to view the differences between the old and new version of
>> the file. Sometimes, it makes no difference to MythTV. Others, it can
>> erase changes you've made to get it to work. Sounds like you lucked out.
>>
>> Try this: ls -ld /etc/*.dpkg* and see if anything that prints out rings
>> a bell with you. Then look at the differences between the files.
>> The filename you rejected would probably have the word 'new' in it.
>>
>> --
>> Bill
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>
> I sure did luck out, forgot to mention comflag is working supremely now too!

>> Try this: ls -ld /etc/*.dpkg* and see if anything that prints out rings
>> a bell with you.
I'm guessing that the following is not what you had in mind:

daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$  ls -ld /etc/*.dpkg*
ls: cannot access /etc/*.dpkg*: No such file or directory
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

Daryl


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