Re: upgrading /etc/passwd (was Re: List of ... problems for 1.2)
On 07 Jan 1997 18:27:23 CST Guy Maor (maor@ece.utexas.edu) wrote:
> Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@ctv.es> writes:
>
> > Oh, yes, just "ar x package.deb" and then tar xzvf data.tar.gz etc/passwd
> > But I was thinking about the end user...
>
> You don't have to use the conffile mechanism to handle your conffiles.
> You can handle them totally in postinsts. That's what base-passwd
> should be doing.
>
> base-passwd would not include /etc/passwd in it. Instead its postinst
> would be something like this:
[snip]
I've got some work in progress on this. Unfortunately, after a two-week absence, I've got a huge backlog of work to do (debianwise too !), and I plan to release an enhanced base-passwd 2.0.0 somewhere around mid-January.
Phil.
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