-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19-06-2005 19:54, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Geert Stappers] > >>Another strange thing ( in the vision of an administrator who has >>seen many other Unix / Linux systems ) are the symbolic links to >>debian-edu files. Such as /etc/ldap/slapd.conf pointing to >>/etc/ldap/slapd-debian-edu.conf > > > It was the best idea we came up with to enable config upgrades without > multilevel configuration suppoort.
And you are sure the packages owning those configfiles (and maybe even conffiles) you replace with symlinks properly handle their files being replaced with symlinks? I have experienced in the past (but no, I have no bugreport to point to, because I considered it my own fault) that upgrading a package with conffiles changed to symlinks confuses the "do you want to preserve local changes or replace" routine... - - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCtbLHn7DbMsAkQLgRAjFcAJ9fmoa7dcZRsQ1cnEYgxq2X/8QfLwCeMbTs PmkmmGieaSe0tZoGAh8SVCA= =f8Zk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
