On 17 Sep 2010, at 10:59 am, Davide Brini wrote:
> Well, if my custom file is in place before the package is installed, could it
> be overwritten with the default one by the package installation? (I haven't
> tried to be honest)
That depends, I suspect, on how you invoke your package manager, and what its
default behaviour is. For Debian-derived distros, invoking aptitude with the
following option forces it to preserve existing config files, if they're
different from the package's own version.
-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"
On Debian systems, I use a script I called "niagi" (non-interactive apt-get
install), which does this and a few other things to make it work smoothly with
cfengine 2, but I imagine it would also work with cfengine 3.:
#!/bin/bash
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
/usr/bin/aptitude -R -y \
-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" \
-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" \
install ${*} >/dev/null
The result of this is that aptitude never asks any questions. If the conf
files are already present, they are preserved (dpkg will install newer versions
as conf-file.dpkg-new instead, so you can examine whether any changes might be
needed to your policy files later), and if the conf file is not present, it
will simply choose all of the package's defaults (or whatever your debconf
settings are, although we don't tend to use those because cfengine doesn't
have, as far as I know, a built-in method for manipulating debconf settings -
they're somewhat redundant anyway when you're controlling the config files
directly)
Regards,
Tim
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