On 23-Feb-2001 Amaya wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry dijo: >> how will this affect current users of your package? when they upgrade, will >> they lose all of their old settings? > > Of course not! ;-) I'd just move them to the new location. > But, I'm starting to think this is not a good idea, maybe. >
after talking with other devels here is a method: in your preinst, check for /etc/foo and if it exists, mkdir /etc/package and copy /etc/foo there. Then remove /etc/foo. Import thing here is that the preinst should not die because of any errors here. Your package contains /etc/package/foo. When dpkg gets to the point where the conffile will be installed, it will do the usual checking if the conffile should be changed and prompting the user.
