On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:02:23PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031228 22:25]: > > I think you mean "-f" for most of those "-a". > > I don't mean "-f", because a symlink is also ok. (But I do perhaps > mean a "-f file -o -h file" or "-r file".)
Yes, you do, in fact, mean -f. Try it. > > You should not be touching anything ending in .dpkg-*. The copy seems > > reasonable, but the mv is unnecessary and should be omitted. When the > > package is upgraded from a version with the conffile to a version > > without the conffile, the actual config file on the system remains, and > > should be left in place. > > Ah, ok. I thought that on removing the file from the package, dpkg asks > also to remove the file from the filesystem (and removes it so to > file.dpkg-old). If that is not the case, I can of course omit the first if > ... fi. No, that is not the case. This is trivial to test. -- - mdz
