On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:12:37PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:21:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:10:29PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > > > It would help to have an example. However, even if there is an > > > example I don't see how db.root fits in this category. > > > > Unfortunately there's no way for a package to override this aspect of > > dpkg's conffile handling. It would have to be handled entirely in the > > maintainer scripts in some different (and careful!) way. > > Is the feature triggered for files appearing in /etc?
The documentation on conffiles is in section 11.7 of policy. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
