multilevel configuration
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 08:39:29PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Jonas Smedegaard]
> > And you are sure the packages owning those configfiles (and maybe even
> > conffiles) you replace with symlinks properly handle their files being
> > replaced with symlinks?
>
> Your question only focus on a very small part of the issue. The
> bigger issue is upgradability when configuration has changed (and some
> times when the configuration haven't changed).
>
> I am quite sure several of these packages do not handle upgrades
> gracefully when the configuration files are changed. This is what I
> want to solve by adding support for multilevel configuration.
What is "multilevel configuration"?
How will it fit in the debian-edu-configuration[1]?
Cheers
Geert Stappers
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2005/04/msg00182.html
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