Hi,
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
1. dpkg-divert the configuration file before replacing it with yours.
This sort of works and sort of doesn't. dpkg doesn't deal well with
diverted configuration files in all cases, and you'll get odd
problems. Whether those odd problems
I've got a package which inclides some arbitrary web files. I'm adding them
to the install file and packaging it up and it installs fine. Now I want to
add the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file to my package so that when I
install, it overwrites or adds my custom configuration to the system so
I've got a package which inclides some arbitrary web files. I'm adding
them to the install file and packaging it up and it installs fine. Now I
want to add the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file to my package so that
when I install, it overwrites or adds my custom configuration to the
Hey,
Thanks for responding! I've tried the conf.d file as well and it give me
the same errors. In any case, I've have other custom config files that I am
going to need to overwrite/customize so my main question still applies. How
do I get past the overwrite issue.
I just found that dpkg by
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Aaron Todd tod...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for responding! I've tried the conf.d file as well and it give me
the same errors. In any case, I've have other custom config files that I am
going to need to overwrite/customize so my main question still applies.
Aaron Todd tod...@gmail.com writes:
Thanks for responding!
(Please don't top-post above the text you're responding to. Thanks.)
Also, Is there any way to find out if there are files marked as a conffile
inside a .deb package file?
Doubtless you are busily reading the Debian Policy manual;
All,
Thanks for your responses. I just want to make it clear, I am not trying to
reinvent the wheel here. I am not trying to cause any harm to the standard
Apache package, and I guess I should have made it known what my ultimate
goal was.
What I am trying to accomplish is to streamline my own
Aaron Todd tod...@gmail.com writes:
Thanks for your responses. I just want to make it clear, I am not
trying to reinvent the wheel here. I am not trying to cause any harm to
the standard Apache package, and I guess I should have made it known
what my ultimate goal was.
What I am trying to
When asking questions it is a good idea to state what you are trying
to do up front rather than asking about a specific roadblock.
Packages that aren't in Debian can do whatever they want, including rm
-rf /usr/share/doc, deleting or modifying configuration files,
installing in /opt or whatever.
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
5. Give up on using Debian packages to do this and instead use a separate
configuration management system that doesn't do its work with packages
(something like Puppet or Cfengine). This is the option that most
people take and it scales a lot
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