On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:09:37PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > I don't really understand why you think pushing changing this setting > > > off to another package is going to be more robust or easier, either. > > It means we won't have to do a dpkg upload just to change a default > > anymore. > It also means that once a system is installed the behavior won't change if > they upgrade to unstable...
It'd be relatively straightforward to have the installer enable force-overwrite on "stable" installs and disable it on "testing" installs. But for woody, surely the best thing is to just have base-config munge it (editing /var/lib/dpkg/status if you like) and be done with it? Worrying about changing it from a conffile to something maintained in the maintainer scripts can be done when 1.10.x comes out. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
