Re: Bug#248136: woody to sid upgrade pretend I have modified /etc/apache/httpd.conf
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > since woody packages do not have any check over config files. They were
> > not handled by ufc and they were not marked as configfiles.
>
> > I am not aware of this. Can you tell me how can i be sure 100% that the
> > files were not modified and preserve in case user modifications?
>
> Yes, you give to ucf the md5sums of the woody version and ucf will skip
> the prompt if that match. See "The default historical md5sum" in ucf
> manpage.
There is no md5sum for the apache configfiles in woody. There is no way to
retrive them. woody packages were using apacheconfig that was mangling the
config at postinst time in almost an unpredicatble way, so not even the
examples can be used. Again as I wrote in my previous email this is the
only way to ensure that the user is warned that something is going to
change or might have changed (see also:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/04/msg06051.html)
Any of the packages mentioned in that list might have modified, without
you noticing it, your configfiles.
And I understand what is your point and i can't do anything for it,
without the risk (relatively high) of breaking user configs.
Fabio
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