Re: Weird conffile case
On Monday 03 March 2014 17:56:38 Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
> The part "undo damage" I do not understand. From what I understand
> dpkg compares the new config with the existing one. So to upgrade from
> stable properly I would have to replace my new config with the
> identical to the existing one, i.e. preprocess it in postinst, just as
> the stable package preprocesses it.
Yes, the idea is to restore the original values of maradns_uid and
maradns_gid. But do no more, otherwise you may alter modifications done by
user.
This needs to be done *with* Russ's suggestions regarding patching maradns.
> But then I violate 10.7.3 again.
> Is that right?
I believe it's ok if you restore only maradns_uid and maradns_gid and leave
all other modifications alone.
More seasoned DDs will correct me if I'm wrong.
Hope this helps
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