Hi all, I'm facing a problem and thought maybe someone here has a solution or could point me into the right direction: The package openswan currently has version 2.4.12 in Lenny whereas in Squeeze version 2.6.28 will appear. As the version number suggest this means some deep changes, also concerning the configuration parameters in the according config files. With the new version comes an external configuration parsing program which checks for config errors and warns accordingly. Normally this shouldn't be such a great issue as major version changes may break configs but as this package's purpose is secure VPN access we want to take care that the program is not restarted without proper configuration. We first thought about aborting the installation in postinst when the config would not run but this would leave the package in a weird state as the new binaries would have already been unpacked. Aborting in preinst is also unfeasable because we do not have the program installed yet so we can't check if the config is ok or not. Our current idea is to do the installation, run the program in postinst to check for config errors and if we find some we issue a warning message and cease to restart the daemon - or does anybody have a better idea?
Kind regards Harald Jenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
