Bug#108587: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification

2009-09-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 16:33:09 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (Re: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification): New scheme: * During unpack, [...] I have implemented this and tested it and it works for me. It fixes the spurious conffile prompt I

Bug#108587: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification

2006-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Frank Lichtenheld writes (Re: Bug#108587: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification): Do you had any more conversation with Scott about this bug and the patch or does this mail mark the latest status of it? Just checking before investigating it for inclusion. Right. We

Bug#108587: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification

2006-01-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:33:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (Re: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification): New scheme: * During unpack, [...] I have implemented this and tested it and it works for me. It fixes the spurious conffile prompt I

Bug#108587: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification): New scheme: * During unpack, [...] I have implemented this and tested it and it works for me. It fixes the spurious conffile prompt I was seeing and appears to work otherwise. Attached is a patch

Bug#108587: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification): * During conffile processing, [...] How does dpkg know whether the conffile is has been removed from the package and its conffiles because it's obsolete (in which case the user should be asked whether to

Bug#108587: dpkg vanishing conffiles - more complex/complete specification

2005-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
This turns out to be somewhat harder than it looks. dpkg does conffile processing during configuration. If anything goes wrong during conffile processing, it stops there; it does not (currently) keep a record in the status file of which conffiles have been processed and which are as yet undone.