On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:46, Matt Armstrong wrote:
- Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a
conffile.
- The program won't work if /etc/flipit.conf isn't edited.
- I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of
future
Matt Armstrong wrote:
- I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of
future options.
I don't follow this point. The user will only be informed that the
conffile has changed if they have modified it in some way and you change
the conffile that's distributed with
I'm packaging my own program (http://www.lickey.com/flipit/) and have a
question about configuration files.
Section 11.7.3 of the Debian Policy Manual states that the configuration
files in /etc must be left alone by the maintainer scripts if it is
marked a conffile:
The easy way to achieve
So I'm left in a situation where:
- Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a
conffile.
- The program won't work if /etc/flipit.conf isn't edited.
- I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of
future options.
-
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:46, Matt Armstrong wrote:
- Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a
conffile.
- The program won't work if /etc/flipit.conf isn't edited.
- I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of
future
Russell Coker wrote:
OK. So you install a file and then customise it to the user. IMHO
customising the file on first install does not count as editing a conf file
as you are just changing what the user will see as the default config.
In your opinion mabe, but not according to policy.
Matt Armstrong wrote:
- I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of
future options.
I don't follow this point. The user will only be informed that the
conffile has changed if they have modified it in some way and you change
the conffile that's distributed with
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:46:52PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote:
I'm packaging my own program (http://www.lickey.com/flipit/) and have a
question about configuration files.
So I'm left in a situation where:
- Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a
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