On 11-Apr-08, 16:07 (CDT), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I humbly offer up samba-common in unstable as an example of a package that
DTRT with ucf to manage a config file.
Is it just me, or does everyone get prompted twice about smb.conf on
samba/samba-common upgrades? (I've looked
On Sat April 12 2008 10:48:01 Steve Greenland wrote:
Is it just me, or does everyone get prompted twice about smb.conf on
samba/samba-common upgrades? (I've looked through the various install
and config scripts, but not closely enough to figure out why...)
It happened here too. I haven't
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:48:01PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 11-Apr-08, 16:07 (CDT), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I humbly offer up samba-common in unstable as an example of a package that
DTRT with ucf to manage a config file.
Is it just me, or does everyone get prompted
(oh, hey, look at that, someone drawing my attention back to this thread
that I meant to follow up to.)
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:43:55AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 10:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
ucf, from its DESCRIPTION
Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've
tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating
Debian configuration packages.
I'm designing a hosting service at Penn State which involves
configuring a big pile of Debian machines
Timothy G Abbott writes (Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System):
So, our goal is to provide our users with the same opportunities to
override our configuration defaults as they would have had if Debian had
been providing them instead. Using the Debian packaging system
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
Timothy G Abbott writes (Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System):
So, our goal is to provide our users with the same opportunities to
override our configuration defaults as they would have had if Debian had
been providing them instead. Using
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:15:48 -0800, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Timothy G Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've
tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating
Debian configuration packages. By
Timothy G Abbott tabbott at MIT.EDU writes:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Frank Küster wrote:
Uh, you can dpkg-divert conffiles, but not generally configuration files,
since many won't even be known to dpkg. I must admit I'm a bit sceptical
about a proposal on configuration, written by
Timothy G Abbott wrote:
There are really two problems with debconf in our system. The first is
that debconf asks questions which our configuration package system will
override. Using 'DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical apt-get install' limits them,
but some packages we configure prompt for
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Frank K??ster wrote:
[...]
3) Scripts that are not marked as conffiles but which cannot be
configured in any way other than by modifying the script.
If those scripts live below /etc, they definitely should be marked as
conffiles. If they live elsewhere, no package should
Timothy G Abbott writes (Debian Configuration Packaging System):
applying dpkg-divert to configuration files.
Yikes.
Tim Abbott writes (Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System):
I'll note that we wrap our dpkg-divert calls with a bunch of
error-handling code that we found quite important
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
Tim Abbott writes (Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System):
applying dpkg-divert to configuration files.
Yikes.
At the moment, there are no choices for doing site configuration that are
general enough to change arbitrary configuration options
Timothy G Abbott writes (Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System):
All of the important problems with our dpkg-divert based configuration
package system that have been discussed in this forum are problems for any
configuration mechanism other than debconf preseeding. Debconf preseeding
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
Timothy G Abbott writes (Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System):
All of the important problems with our dpkg-divert based configuration
package system that have been discussed in this forum are problems for any
configuration mechanism other than
Timothy G Abbott tabbott at MIT.EDU writes:
Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've
tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating
Debian configuration packages. By configuration packages, we mean
packages that configure an existing Debian
Le dimanche 24 février 2008 à 19:46 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
The ones that are overwritten completely that I'm aware of contain only
settings managed by debconf, or (as is the case for krb5-kdc and
krb5-admin-server) explicitly ask whether you want to manage the
configuration file through
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Le dimanche 24 février 2008 à 19:46 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
The ones that are overwritten completely that I'm aware of contain only
settings managed by debconf, or (as is the case for krb5-kdc and
krb5-admin-server) explicitly ask whether you
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 10:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
ucf, from its DESCRIPTION in its man page, seems to handle the case of
shipping a configuration file upstream that may also be locally
modified, but I don't see where it handles merging in the
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 10:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
The problem is this: both krb5-kdc and krb5-admin-server have /etc/default
files that control various aspects of the startup of the servers, such as
whether a krb524d is run and what level of Kerberos v4 support is enabled
in the KDC. All
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Frank K??ster wrote:
Uh, you can dpkg-divert conffiles, but not generally configuration files, since
many won't even be known to dpkg. I must admit I'm a bit sceptical about a
proposal on configuration, written by someone who lets this important
distinction slip by...
Timothy G Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anders Kaseorg and I created a system of CDBS modules (which we've
tentatively packaged as the config-package-dev package) for creating
Debian configuration packages. By configuration packages, we mean
packages that configure an existing Debian
I'll note that we wrap our dpkg-divert calls with a bunch of
error-handling code that we found quite important for correctly recovering
from people hitting ^C in the middle of installation (see
http://debathena/config-packages/code/config-package-dev-4.2/divert.sh.in
for the code). Earlier
Tim Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We also ran into a few packages which will overwrite configuration files
that they manage via debconf, overwriting our symlink every time the
relevant package is upgraded. But I think that's a bug in those Debian
packages, since the same problem would
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
Tim Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We also ran into a few packages which will overwrite configuration files
that they manage via debconf, overwriting our symlink every time the
relevant package is upgraded. But I think that's a bug in those Debian
Tim Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
Configuration files generated by debconf may not be manually changed
without running this risk, including by humans. Generally, this is
documented in the file. I have several of those in packages I
maintain.
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