Oded Arbel wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 16:34 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: >> Oded Arbel wrote: >>> Not having enough experience with Debian, and not having access to an >>> installation totting dpkg, why is -L not listing configuration files ? >>> >> Dpkg distinguishes between config files that always need to be modified >> and config files that arrive with a reasonable default. The way to >> handle the former is to dynamically generate them during the postinst >> script. Such files are not, strictly speaking, handled by the dpkg >> database, and will therefor not appear when you do dpkg -L. >> >> As Lior clearly demonstrated, files belonging to the later category WILL >> get listed when you do "dpkg -L". > > I'm only familiar with RPMs notion of configuration files, in which > configuration files are also distributed but have a special behavior > where they are not overwritten when upgrading if they contain local > changes. I'm assuming that when you speak of configuration files with > reasonable defaults you speak of something similar to that.
Don't forget that RPMs also provide a similar behavior with the differences between: %config %config(noreplace) %config(missingok) -- Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
