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Re: Problems with using debconf in init script...



Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:02:56PM -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > > Use, umm, /etc/default/<service> then. See bug #66912, which should be
> > > in policy version 3.2.1.2.
> > This does not apply to the case where the /etc/default/<service> file
> > might be changed by debconf...
> 
> Why not? Just create /etc/default/<service> in the postinst instead of making
> it a conffile...

What happens if someone makes some changes to /etc/default<service>
and than dpkg-reconfigure <service> is ran ? Overwrite manual changes ?

Phil.



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