Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but >> still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a >> preferred way how to do this? > > Have you read debconf-devel(7), namely the section on "Config file > handling"? If not, do.
I have, but parsing language.dat is not easy. However, it _is_ possible. >> Here's why I come to ask the question: Recently, a bug was filed against >> tetex-bin, #209395, criticizing that a configuration file, language.dat, >> is not in /etc, but under /var. > > Yeuch, tetex is the most disastrous example of configuration file > handling I can think of. I keep being repeatedly asked strange questions > about merging configuration files I know for certain I've never touched, > and asked incomprehensible debconf questions about files I don't care > about. I guess this is because it's hard to both present a mostly-working starting configuration for newbies and keep the configuration possibilities for TeXperts. And from a slow migration to debconf which involves more and more files (BTW, I'm more annoyed by being asked by dpkg that conffiles where changed "by me or a script" that I didn't even know they existed) However, if you find questions incomprehensible, we're happy to read your bug reports. >> He should have answered "no" to the question wether debconf should >> manage this file if he wants to do that. > > I have to say that I'm coming to believe that anything that talks about > "debconf managing this file" is a bug. If the user makes changes to the > file, I think it's the package's responsibility to cope with that. I'll have a look at ucf - hopefully this is a solution for that. Thank you, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
