On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 03:17:35PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi ! > > I have a problem with my wwwoffle package: > it has a config file /etc/wwwoffle.conf. > When installing I try to convert existing config files with a shipped > config file converter and only if that fails because it is the first > install of wwwoffle, I copy the example conf file from the /usr/doc. > > The problem is now, that I have mark the /etc/wwwoffle.conf as "configfile" > in the ...../debian/conffiles file. But when building, dpkg complains that > the named conffile is not there, what is quit right, since while shipping, > the file isn't in /etc, but in /usr/doc... > > What should I do now ? > simply let dpkg handle the overwriting/not-installing of the config file > and mark the file in debian/conffiles > or > did not mark it in debian/conffiles and let postinst handle the file. > > Both will earn me some bug reports :-) > > read you, > > -christian-
Why not chew up a few more bytes and put the base conffile in /usr/doc and /etc inside the package? This would solve your problem (and the space should be insignificant if it is just a small conffile). Chris -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe? (Y/N/Q) ....Debian GNU/Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply with subject 'request key' for PGP public key. KeyID 0xA9E087D5
