Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

2012-02-08 Thread John Pietrzak
Hi folks, I've been working on a small Maemo app, and have reached the point where I've pushed it up to Extras-Devel. Almost everything works perfectly, except for one item: I've created a sudoers file for the app, in order to allow it to call modprobe to load a kernel module. (This is the

Re: Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

2012-02-08 Thread Pali Rohár
Hi, On Wednesday 08 February 2012 13:10:25 John Pietrzak wrote: Hi folks, I've been working on a small Maemo app, and have reached the point where I've pushed it up to Extras-Devel. Almost everything works perfectly, except for one item: I've created a sudoers file for the app, in order to

Re: Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

2012-02-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:21:16 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: I can install and uninstall the file just fine using the debian package I've constructed locally. When installing the app from the Extras-Devel repository, however, the application manager can place the file into /etc/sudoers.d, but

Re: Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

2012-02-08 Thread Pali Rohár
On Wednesday 08 February 2012 21:04:26 gregor herrmann wrote: On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:21:16 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: I can install and uninstall the file just fine using the debian package I've constructed locally. When installing the app from the Extras-Devel repository, however, the

Re: Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

2012-02-08 Thread John Pietrzak
On 2/8/12 3:15 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: On Wednesday 08 February 2012 21:04:26 gregor herrmann wrote: apt-get remove without --purge won't remove conffiles, which would explain why /etc/sudoers.d/foo is still there ... And that's on purpose at least in Debian. If HAM can't be told to purge a