On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:38:29PM +0100, Maik Busch wrote: > is it a good way to create config files with postinst scripts? I > allways have some machines show a different behavior because i > installed them with different postinsts. Possibly. It depends. Check out the way XF86Config-4 files are handled with debconf. > I think creating files in that way is very dirty and we should try to > avoid that. They should be shipped as _real_ config files in a deb > package. Possibly. It depends. I would definitely suggest placing example config files in /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples and making sure the manpage for the config file is available. i.e. /usr/share/man/man5/package.conf.5.gz -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie@wookimus.net)
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