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?
/etc
without prompting you to make the change, assuming you are updating interactively and haven't changed the default dpkg behavior. If you are changing files outside of the/etc/
directory then you might have problems, and there isn't a simple way to address this. Can you give some examples of specific packages/files that you have had problems with getting over-written?