Re: Creating custom deb package with conffiles overrides
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 11:37 -0700, Atle Veka a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to create a custom configuration package which among
> > other things installs an snmpd.conf into /etc/snmp/. Is there a way in my
> > package declaration to tell apt to override the previously installed snmpd
> > package that "owns" /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf? Or should I be going about this
> > another way?
> >
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/fci-newos-base_1.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite `/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf', which is also in package
> > snmpd
>
> I think you can't. What you can do is dynamically create the file in
> your postinst, but dpkg will mention that the file has been modified
> each time snmpd is upgraded. What I would do (if it is possible and if
> it would do the trick) is ship a separate file and use the postinst
> script to append something like a "include,myfile.conf" at the end of
> `/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf' (I don't know the syntax of this file). dpkg
> would still ask what to do upon upgrade, but it looks cleaner to me to
> have a single line to manage in the file.
>
> A topic on this subject just started on debian-devel (how to make things
> easier for people doing what you are trying to), I suggest you browse
> the archive tomorrow.
Thanks! I assume you mean the subject: Deploying configuration as
packages.
Atle
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Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator
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