Re: Derivatives needing to replace config files

[Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com>]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Karl Goetz wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:28:34 -0400 (EDT) Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> > Debathena developed a CDBS extension module called config-package-dev
> > that lets you do this in a mostly-sane manner for packaged files
> > (either regular files or conffiles, but not generated files). The
> > purpose of config-package-dev is to let us ship a package that via
> > dpkg-divert replaces a file in another package, so that we don't have
> > to rebuild the other package, take on responsibility for watching for
> > security updates, etc., and can just point users at the main Debian
> > repository for it.
>
> That sounds really neat.
>
> >    http://debathena.mit.edu/config-package-dev
>
> > [...] I'm
> > also working on a Debhelper based reweite in my spare time since DH 7
> > got us much of what we originally wanted from CDBS, but I'm not sure
> > how quickly this will be done.
>
> I can't offer to help write you port it, but if I can help in testing
> your DH7(and over?) version at some point let me know :)

Hi all,

I've finally finished this rewrite and its documentation, and uploaded 
config-package-dev 5.0 to unstable and Ubuntu raring. Use is now 
super-simple with Debhelper 7-style rules files: if you want a package 
named mydistro-foo-config to override /etc/foo.conf, just make a new-style 
rules file that calls dh $@ --with=config-package, make 
debian/mydistro-foo-config.displace contain /etc/foo.conf.mydistro, and 
install a foo.conf.mydistro using e.g. debian/mydistro-foo-config.install. 
config-package-dev (dh_configpackage and its maintainer scripts) will take 
care of the rest.

Further documentation is on our website:
  http://debathena.mit.edu/config-package-dev

Let me or config-package-dev@mit.edu know if you've got questions about 
using the system.

--
Geoffrey Thomas
http://ldpreload.com
geofft@ldpreload.com