On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:39:24AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > And you don't want to call those tweaks "packages" because? > > Packages can be home-made. They don't have to come from an official > > Debian archive. > > When you hack a configuration file officially in a Debian package, it is > done in "maintainer scripts", typically "postinst", and sometimes tied > to a debconf-based question. Such maintainer script makes sense only as > part of that package, not as an independent package. > > Tweaks are "maintainer scripts" for "CDD maintainers". As such they make > sense as part of the CDD, not as independent packages.
Why not call them independent packages? > If you want to > package your CDD logo in a package, What files exactly does that affect? > your GRUB menu file in another, The grub menu is generated whenever you install a kernel package. Currently there is a "custom" part. Bug the grub package maintainer to have /etc/grub/menu.d and then put your file there. End of story. > and > your distro PGP public key in a third, You mean create another package like debian-keyring ? > then feel free. I personally > think they make sense only as part of the distro packaging, not as > individual, self-contained .deb packages. > > I don't know the details of the d-i approach. Do you want the tweaks > distributed as udebs, is that it? As mentioned up this thread, the problem with the d-i approach, and also with cfgengine and alike, that those work for install-time, but won't work for later upgrades. Also consider the "source package" approach: cdd-tool will create the appropriate binary packages at build time. When working on our Rapid, I originally put many things in our custom udeb. But it only took me one release to see that whatever is configured there won't be applied when people will upgrade packages. > > > Can you provide an example of such a tweak that cannot be expressed as a > > debian package? > > Here: > http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tweaks/oldtweaks/oldtweaks/gconf/desktop-profiles-support.cf?cvsroot=tweaks > > It is part of a proposed fix for this recent bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/309871 > Yet another chance to say: "CGonf bad, Elektra good" (at least from package maintainers perspective). This is really a flaw of GConf. However in there you edit config files under $HOME, which is not something root should do, IMHO. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 +972-50-7952406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
