Re: avoid conf file overwrite message?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0800, William Francis wrote:
> I have a package that I made which does a dpkg-divert in the
> 'preinst' on a couple of config files and then installs replacements
> from them. However, even though the dpkg-divert has run (and I've
> verified it does move it to the name I specify), I still get a message
> that looks like this:
> (this is similar to mine but not exact, I just grabbed it from the net
> as I don't have mine handy)
> Configuration file `/etc/twiki/apache.conf'
> ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
> ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
> What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
> Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
> N or O : keep your currently-installed version
> D : show the differences between the versions
> Z : background this process to examine the situation
> The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** apache.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y
> Installing new version of config file /etc/twiki/apache.conf ...
> Is there a way (short of piping in /usr/bin/yes or something similar)
> to make that go away? Eventually I'll use something like puppet to
> manage these files but for now this happens to be the easiest way. If
> I do answer 'Y' it does indeed do what I want.
Diverting conffiles is not supported. Suppressing the prompts is supported
with a dpkg option; one of --force-confnew, --force-confold, or
--force-confdef, depending on which default you want to use. (It's possible
to configure dpkg options in /etc/apt/apt.conf, though I don't remember the
incantation exactly.)
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