Re: weird effect
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Tonight I upgraded to current hamm; I was asked if I wanted to replace my
> issue and issue.net files; I replied N to both. issue was preserved,
> but issue.net is gone!
>
> The preinst for base-files removes /etc/issue.net if it is a link (why?)
Because it is a conffile since base-files_1.3.5 (at least), and having a
conffile being a symlink is tricky. Default issue.net was a symlink
to issue in the first base-files (or maybe base?) releases.
> but it wasn't.
Mmm, really strange. Which was your previous base-files version?
Did you upgrade from rex or from bo?
I would like to reproduce the same error.
It is true that when issue.net is a symlink to issue, then it is simply
removed, because once it is removed, dpkg see it as an inexistant conffile
and do not ask. This dpkg behaviour is not the desired one in most cases
and I think it is already reported as a bug. Perhaps I should treat
issue.net in the same way I already treat /root/.bashrc?
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