Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conffiles?
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at> schrieb:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
>> still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
>> preferred way how to do this?
>
> Parse the file and only change the debconf-managed options, the
> debconf-devel manpage has an example. Which can be difficult.
>
> [...]
>> Put the information from the debconf database into the file, but between
>> markers ### begin DEBCONF section for $package... ### end DEBCONF
>> section for $package. So an admin can add his customization before or
>> after that, and upon dpkg-reconfigure or an upgrade only the part
>> between the markers will be changed.
>
>> Is this concept o.k.? I couldn't find anything in the policy about that.
>
> I think it is lot better than
> "May I overwrite any manual changes to the file?" <Yes> <No>
> but it tends not to work to well, because users tend to miss the fat
> README. Which is why XFree86 recently dumped this approach.
Thank you. In the meantime, I've found a discussion on debian-devel
(unix configuration nightmare) which clarified a lot. I also found ucf
there, will have a look at it.
Bye, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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