On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:36:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Does this change have a rationale (and if so, could it be included in a
footnote), or should it be reverted?
The file is expected to be changed, which would trigger the 'get the new
version?' prompt. Trying to reduce
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:13:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:36:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Does this change have a rationale (and if so, could it be included in a
footnote), or should it be reverted?
The file is expected to be changed, which would
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:44:24AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:13:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
All conffiles are expected to be changed...
From 11.7.3:
The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the configuration
file a `conffile'. This is
Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:36:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Does this change have a rationale (and if so, could it be included in a
footnote), or should it be reverted?
The file is expected to be changed, which would trigger the 'get the new
Can a file that is not human readable (editable) be a conffile?
gnome-libs-data declares /etc/mime-magic.dat (which is some kind of
binary database generated from the textual conffile /etc/mime-magic)
as such. The maintainer thinks this is correct -- I obviously don't.
I'm bringing this up on
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:37:03AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
From 11.7.3:
The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the configuration
file a `conffile'. This is appropriate only if it is possible to
distribute a default version that will work for most installations,
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:57:16PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
Can a file that is not human readable (editable) be a conffile?
gnome-libs-data declares /etc/mime-magic.dat (which is some kind of
binary database generated from the textual conffile /etc/mime-magic)
as such. The maintainer
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:31:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Well I don't know about you, but most of the files in /etc/default on my
system do not need to be changed. They're all sensible defaults.
They're certianly no more likely to be changed than random other
conffiles in /etc (with the
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy
Module name:debian-policy
Changes by: jdg Mon Jun 18 16:18:37 PDT 2001
Modified files:
. : policy.sgml
Log message:
* Correct the /etc/default conffile/config file stuff I mucked up
(sorry Joey!) [10.3.2]
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy
Module name:debian-policy
Changes by: jdg Mon Jun 18 16:21:10 PDT 2001
Modified files:
debian : changelog
Log message:
* And make a note of the /etc/default stuff in the changelog too.
JG == Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
JG Can I check if I've understood correctly. What happens if I edit
JG /etc/mime-magic; does /etc/mime-magic.dat get automatically recreated
JG or do things break if I don't update it manually? And how do I do the
JG latter?
This file isn't
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