Hi Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the poped up question when overwriting config files (during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to generate the packge OR is there a debhelper command (dh_..) that will trigger that prior to calling dpkg-deb
thanks Zvi Dubitzky Email:[email protected] From: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 31/08/2010 03:03 Subject: Re: conffiles Matthew Palmer <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01:46PM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: >> I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the >> configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten >> when installing a package , Yet when I install the built package the >> package config files are overwriting the existing config files at /etc >> without popping out a question. > You should never need to list files in /etc as conffiles, as they're > detected and a conffiles written out at package build time (because > Policy says all files in /etc are conffiles). This is only true if you're using debhelper, and from previous messages I believe the original poster is learning packaging by taking a more manual approach. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/off1662c2f.dc3b066c-onc2257790.00142c06-c2257790.0014c...@il.ibm.com
