Re: Conffiles and Configuration files (again)
Hi,
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] On Mon, Apr 06,
Anthony> 1998 at 05:14:56PM +0200, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Anthony Towns wrote: What I'd like to propose,
>> therefore, is extending the "conffile" label to cover all
>> configuration files. Why do you want to do that?
Anthony> So I can get a list of what files in /etc are meant to be
Anthony> there, and what aren't.
Then please do not use conffiles for that. conffiles has a wel
defined semantics at the moment, and using them in this fashion is
conffile abuse ;-)
Instead, we should introduce a file called extra files to list
files that the package may generate in maintainer scripts or in
normal operations which are not listed in pkg.list. We may exclude
files under /var/run and /var/log entirely.
I do think that expanding the conffiles concept for this is a
really bad idea. It dilutes the power of the conffile concept, and
indeed would be better served by a extrafile directive.
dpkg and friends would not need to be modified to handle
extrafiles anyway.
BTW, this needs be thought out in detail; and I have not yet
had my fix of caffiene, so I am not going to atttempt to define it
further.
manoj
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