On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:08:01AM +0200, Ond�ej Sur� wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 11:01, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > > > >2. During 'make install', the current bincimap.conf file is > > > overwritten with the new one. At the least, write it as > > > bincimap.conf.new, and notify the user to check for new > > > configurables. > > > Another option would be to read in the current variables and write > > > to bincimap.conf, saving the old conffile as bincimap.conf.old > > > > Yes, this is quite annoying. I will go for the first suggestion, avoiding > > the problems from users running "make install" twice. :-) > > I would suggest installing it as bincimap.conf.example all the time and > rest leave at packagers (in Debian, it is marked as configfile and won't > be overwritten unless you choose to) and INSTALL file.
I would in turn suggest to not install it at all if there already exists a configuration file, and tell the installing person about it. //Peter
