Re: [PATCH 2/7] Conffile database handling functions
On Mon, 09 May 2011, sean finney wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:05:20PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > The control files are installed as <pkg>.foo except for Multi-Arch: same
> > which are installed as <pkg>:<arch>.foo.
> >
> > It's probably a good idea to reuse the same logic here.
>
> If a package migrates from non-multiarch to multi-arch, that means
> that the location of the conffiledb for the package would change, right?
Right.
> If so, then I think we'd need to either ensure that the implementation
> can support it[1], or just be lazy and always have the arch[2].
>
> [1] checking the multi-arch status of the package's previous version to
> determine the conffiledb path at appropriate points in the code,
> assuming that can be done.
I have not looked into details but I don't see why this couldn't be done.
BTW, always using the arch has other problems: cross-grading a multi-arch
foreign package from one arch to the other would need special care too.
And switching from arch all to arch any would also cause problems.
> [2] assuming i read the spec correctly you can't have two copies of an
> arch:all package installed.
That's true.
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