-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19-06-2005 20:39, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Jonas Smedegaard] > >>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? > > > Your question only focus on a very small part of the issue. The > bigger issue is upgradability when configuration has changed (and some > times when the configuration haven't changed). > > I am quite sure several of these packages do not handle upgrades > gracefully when the configuration files are changed. This is what I > want to solve by adding support for multilevel configuration.
I believe the "bigger" issue you describe is "upgrades being forced interactive", asking annoying questions about what to do with conf(ig)files changed at initial install by debian-edu. The issue I raise is about packages breaking(!) on upgrades. Not the same. Breakage is IMHO the bigger issue. If I remember correctly, my experience was that when upgrading a symlinked conffile, changes were applied to the redirected configfile and then the symlink is removed. Possibly I am describing an ancient bug of dpkg long fixed - that's why I asked: Have you _tested_ upgrades of what you describe as the "best idea we came up with" or just assumed that it would behave sanely? - 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 iD8DBQFCtcqFn7DbMsAkQLgRAsn9AKCM+v7lPZ1L1IFYmRWzLmFuBvRcowCfZgb0 5rcXdC5w83JyUFDVJyO/iAY= =G8Oh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
