Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System
Timothy G Abbott writes ("Debian Configuration Packaging System"):
> applying dpkg-divert to configuration files.
Yikes.
Tim Abbott writes ("Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System"):
> I'll note that we wrap our dpkg-divert calls with a bunch of
> error-handling code that we found quite important for correctly recovering
> >from people hitting ^C in the middle of installation (see
> <http://debathena/config-packages/code/config-package-dev-4.2/divert.sh.in>
> for the code). Earlier iterations that did not do this were plagued with
> problems whenever there were errors in installation.
Yikes.
I think this is a bad idea.
Ian.
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