Re: Asking for LILO configurations, intent to make 'liloconfig'
On Wed, 28 Oct, 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Have you looked at the kernel-image package? The postinst
> tries to create a lilo.conf if no such file exists. It looks at
> /etc/fstab, determines which partitin is bootable, and creates a
> lilo.conf after looking at the results. I like to think this is worth
> looking at.
Just a random thought, but I was reading the Debian Policy Manual and I came
across this, is kernel-image at fault or is it the policy?
3.3.7. Configuration files
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...
Only packages that are tagged *conflicting* with each other may
specify the same file as `conffile'. A package may not modify a
configuration file of another package.
If two or more packages use the same configuration file, one of these
packages has to be defined as *owner* of the configuration file, i.e.,
it has to list the file as `conffile' and has to provide a program
that modifies the configuration file.
The other packages have to depend on the *owner* package and use that
program to update the configuration file.
Sometimes it's appropriate to build a new package, which just provides
the basic *infrastructure* for the other packages and which manages
the shared configuration files. (Check out the sgml-base package as an
example.)
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