Re: changing location of conffiles
From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: changing location of conffiles
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:09:36 +0900
> From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: changing location of conffiles
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:17:39 -0800
>
> > In your preinst, if the new conffile does not exist, and the old one
> > does (you can throw in a version check too), move the old file to the
> > new location.
>
> But, at the stage of preinst (i.e. before expanding a package)
> the new location /etc/foo does not exist yet ...???
Ah, sorry. Perhaps you mean to create /etc/foo if it does
not exists. But is this okay? Creating /etc/foo which will
be generated by a package itself afterwards ...
It sounds curious or funny to me.
Best Regards, 2000.11.28
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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