On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file > >> > will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator > >> > has left in place your default configuration system. > >> > >> Of course the maintainer should know their package. If the binary reads > >> a configuration file in /usr/share/bla, and in the old version there was > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This would be a problem. > > Why? What problem?
You've now got a conffile in a location which is not /etc, namely /var/lib/bla, which cannot be overridden by the administrator. Instead, I'd suggest having the symlink in /usr/share/bla pointing to /etc/bla.cnf which then in the default install is a symlink to /var/lib/bla or whatever is appropriate; if the user has modified the configuration file, you don't stick in the symlink. If the user hasn't, you put in the symlink. [Of course, ideally you'd have a configuration file language that would enable you to just include the conf.d directly... but that may not always be possible.] Don Armstrong -- "The trouble with you, Ibid" he said, "is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything" -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p146 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
