On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Michael Bell wrote:

> Brian May wrote:
> > Unless I am mistaken, I just noticed that openca-common includes:
> >
> > /var/lib/openca/crypto/index.txt
> > /var/lib/openca/crypto/serial
> >
> > This means that upgrading the openca-common package will overwrite these
> > files without any warning or question.
>  >
> > Is this really desirable?
>
> This happens only with packages. The makefiles will detect existing
> index.txt and serial. A crash of these files is no problem because
> OpenCA can recover these files (see recovery section of node interface).
>

But that files should not be part of the package, if I understood the
debian policy right, but created in postinstall. That way, they won't ever
be replaced in a upgrade.



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