Aaron, On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:02:53PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > It seems this is at odds with policy, which prohibutes the automated > editing of conffiles (such as squid.conf). This is a bit ironic, since > asking 'Would you like to enable this package by inserting a line FOO > into /etc/squid.conf? [Y/n]' is much cleaner than printing a note 'You > must run the script /usr/sbin/setupthispckage to enable this package'. > While both of those would acomplish essensially the same thing, only > one would be permissible by policy. > > What should I do in regards to editing this conffile? You should not change (semi-)automatic the squid.conf by asking debconf questions. Those changes are vital and the admin should make these changes by hand. Take a look in login.app. It displays a message to change your inittab accordingly (change default runlevel for example). If you really think you want to change this automatically, you can ask the squid maintainer to remove /etc/squid.conf from his conffiles. Then ask him to include a configuration script in his package which modifies squid.conf accordingly. Then use this script to make your changes (for example update-inetd is one such script for /etc/inetd.conf). Bastian
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