-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23-11-11 14:34, Arno Töll wrote: > please mind the exact wording here. A "configuration file" is not > the same as a "conffile" in Debian. Note, you are not allowed to > modify a conffile at any time. In the context of the maintainer scripts, I take it. ;-)
[...] > If you want to modify the configuration of your package at > installation time, you can do so by creating a configuration file > your program expects _at installation time_ in the maintainer > script but it must not be part of the package itself. To preserve > user changes or do a graceful updates of your dynamically created > configuration files, you may then manage your changes through ucf > as Alexander suggested. OK, thanks. Just to be clear, running dpkg-reconfigure *will* rewrite the configuration if the admin never touched the configuration file, is that correct? I'm going to try my hand at using ucf now. Cheers, Dennis - -- D.H. van Dok :: Software Engineer :: www.nikhef.nl :: www.biggrid.nl Phone +31 20 592 22 28 :: http://www.nikhef.nl/~dennisvd/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7NBhIACgkQIITq5lEwLHcbfACdFpzL8n6s6wl8uBBjvsMmWaZk g+AAniPf6x75oTKvxW5vGQlD2XvusWBc =qTqW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
