On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:12:58PM -0600, Chris Thompson wrote: > Hello. I am trying to create a set of debian packages. Everything is going > well except that I am trying to add a file into /etc/xinet.d so that the > server is started automatically. > > When I run dpkg -i packagename.deb, I see that it creates a file called > quasard.dpkg-new in /etc/xinet.d but by the time the installation is That's the behavior of dpkg for conffiles; at configuration time it looks for .dpkg-new and does the tests for whether to replace or update the conffile, or prompt (only iff both the maintainer and admin updated it, and to different content).
> complete, this file is removed. That's not expected though.. > Strangely, if I set user and group to root, the file is not removed at the > end > of the install and everything works. Note that I am using /opt/quasar for my > directory tree. I set the ownership of this directory to quasar:quasar in my > postinst file. I create the user and group quasar in my preinst file. Why in preinst? BTW do you know about the maintainer script rollback actions? http://justinpryzby.com./debian/dpkg/ They're not strictly necessary to implement, but you have to at least check the arguments to make sure you're not doing forwards things in a backwards path (although in many cases this is the right thing to do, I guess that's by deliberate design decision). > What am I doing incorrectly? Can you link to your diff.gz? I'm in particular interested in seeing your maintainer scripts. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
