I am using stdeb to produce my debian packages and I am a novice when it comes to packaging in general, so bear with me if I am mixing together apples and oranges and just help me understanding better...
What I am trying to achieve is to have certain files of my application that are persistent across software updates in other words: updating from mypackage-1.0 to mypackage-1.0.1 should imply overwriting only certain files of the v.1.0 if present, but not all of them. These "persistent files" are application-specific and not user-specific (i.e. they don't live in the /home/* hierarchy). [If this information is of any use: said files are sqlite files with usage statistic] My questions: At what level should I manage this? It is something I have to manage within my application (1), within my setup.py configuration script (2), or is something I am obliged to handle by dropping stdeb and packaging for debian "from scratch" (3)? Any link to examples very much appreciated! Thank you in advance for your time! :) /mac _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
