peter green wrote: >> So, what do you suggest for this? Of course, this file _is_ a conffile >> (i.e. should never be automatically overwritten, so just moving it >> over to /var/lib is not just compiling with a different path set). If >> I don't automatically upgrade the file, users will end up with a >> confused daemon unable and unwilling to move on. How should I proceed >> with this? > > My understanding is in this situation the correct soloution is not to > ship the file in the package at all and then have the maintainer scripts > create/edit it on install/upgrade.
ucf can be a great help for this. -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pacakges: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org