Re: changing location of conffiles

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> 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.

There's nothing wrong with creating a directory in the preinst if the
package also contains the directory. Dpkg should even handle deleting it
properly on purge (except for the little bug it has with directories
with conffiles in them, but that's another story..)

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