On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:01:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:51:21PM -0700, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> > When the package installs, it looks for the package-provided
> > /usr/share/base-passwd/{passwd,group}.master. If a site has local
> > changes, it is necessary to override the package files. If the site
> > wants to do this during noninteractive Debian installation (ks), they
> > have no choice but to modify the package before installation.
> >
> > I've attached a first-pass fix which looks for
> > /etc/base-passwd/{passwd,group}.local first.
>
> Hmm, I thought about this a bit. Wouldn't it be better simply to move
> passwd.master and group.master to /etc/base-passwd/, and make them
> conffiles? Of course, that means you have to do conflict resolution on
> them, but it does mean that user/group changes that are assumed by other
> Debian packages don't get lost. The current arrangement does have the
> benefit that it's very hard to forget about user/group changes.
This sounds fine to me as I think the default response for noninteractive
debconf questioning is N.
> I'd be slightly happier with an arrangement that allowed files in /etc
> to override single items from the master files.
You mean a series of diffs or something?
Ryan
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