What to do during an update that brings a different new configuration file?

[Nikole]

Hello,

I am getting this message and for now I have answered “keep the local”.

Is this the correct option or we should be checking differences and making changes?

…or install the package maintainer’s version?

 

[tom]

=> Keep the local version currently installed

 

[Nikole]

Thank you for the reply.
In regards to config files such as freshclam.conf, can we edit them manually if we need more settings (i.e logging?)

I noticed that the log file /var/log/clamavfreshclam.log was empty so I added logging settings in the config.
I restarted the service and the log file was populated properly. I see now however that the settings I put manually are gone from the config file.
What is the solution to this?

 

[steven99]

You'll want to look at config templating to avoid the changes being overwritten .