On Tue, Feb 3 1998 10:39 +0500 "Adam P. Harris" writes: > David, did you ever get any sort of solution on this? No, I'm still waiting until a solution is emerging and settled on debian-policy. > Perhaps there should be a pointer from developers documentation on how > to deal with a conffile which is in another package, where that other > package provides no standard means to update its conffiles. Yes, I'd appreciate that warmly :=)
> David, AFAIK, the only solution is to have a sysadmin program (or > script of course) which makes the changes you were automating in > postinst, but just pipes to STDOUT or something. Then you leave it up > to the sysadmin to make the changes, thereby covering your ass. This is something I thought about too. But it is obviously only second class... > Of course the ultimate solution is to either work with Guy on the > generic modify conffile/services system he mentioned in debian-devel a > while back, or even work with lpr/lprng people to have a stdized way > to hack the configs. I asked the lpr Maintainer, but he is at the moment to busy... :( David -- David Frey (51F35923114FC864 7D05FF173C61EFDE) Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer
