I'm preparing a new release of my pppupd package and I want to correct some things which though not harmful are annoying.
pppupd ships with a conffile which needs to be customized for each individual installation so I ask some questions in the postinst. However if a person is upgrading from a previous version of the package, chances are he will have already done the customization. In this case I don't want to annoy him by asking him (and possibly damage his working configuration) by asking him the questions again. Right now I check the existence of /etc/pppupd.cf (the conffile) and skip the questions if it doesn't exist. But this doesn't really work because by the time the configure phase of postinst occurs dpkg has already unpacked the default conffile unless the user has an existing one and answered no when dpkg asked to replace it. In either case /etc/pppupd.cf will exist. Thus: Q1. How can I tell if the conffile is the package default or a user-modified version? One way I thought of was to look for the existance of /etc/pppupd.cf.dpkg-dist but I don't think this is too reliable. Am I wrong? pppud being a daemon to keep ppp connections alive, is pretty useless unless ppp is correctly configured (not just installed) first. Currently what I do is to ask the user in the postinst if ppp is correctly configured first. I only proceed if he answers yes. I dislike this because interactive prompting should be kept as minimal as possible. Thus: Q2: How can I reliably determine if a package has been configured? Again I thought of one possible solution. Do a dpkg -l ppp and if the second character on the line is i, it means the package has been correctly installed. Is there a better way than this? Any advice gratefully received. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
