On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 09:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> writes: > > > krb5-config uses debconf as a registry. It uses informations from > > debconf as authoritative over the real krb5.conf and even asks > > informations again on upgrade, like the kdc for the own realm. [...] > However, I don't > know how to distinguish between the dpkg-reconfigure case and the > reinstall case, where I presume the user's local changes should always be > maintained.
The config script will be called with the argument "reconfigure"; the prerm and postinst are called with "upgrade" and "configure" as usual, but with $DPKG_RECONFIGURE set to 1. This doesn't appear to be documented anywhere that I can find at the moment, so the above is based on my reading of dpkg-reconfigure itself (thankfully it's quite small and easy to follow). A quick look through /var/lib/dpkg/info/ on this system suggests that a number of other packages have other expectations. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
