Matthew Palmer <mpal...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01:46PM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote:
>> I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the >> configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten >> when installing a package , Yet when I install the built package the >> package config files are overwriting the existing config files at /etc >> without popping out a question. > You should never need to list files in /etc as conffiles, as they're > detected and a conffiles written out at package build time (because > Policy says all files in /etc are conffiles). This is only true if you're using debhelper, and from previous messages I believe the original poster is learning packaging by taking a more manual approach. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq2rk5ty....@windlord.stanford.edu
