Re: Configuration Files created at Installation Time

[racke@linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg Racke)]

Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:19:02PM +0200 , Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> > 
> > Some packages doesn't have their configuration files
> > in PACKAGE.conffiles, like exim and apache.
> > They are created at installation file, so I see no
> > way to get them into. 
> > This is bad IMHO because they cannot purged. 
> 
> Why? It's the job of postrm of corresponding package to remove itself
> completly
> 
> (example from apache.postrm)
> if [ "$1" = "purge" ]
> then
>     rm -rf /var/lib/apache
>     rm -rf /var/log/apache
>     rm -rf /var/run/apache
>     rm -rf /var/run/apache_runtime_status
>     rm -rf /var/run/apache.status
>     rm -rf /var/run/apache.scoreboard
>     rm -rf /etc/apache
> 
>     if [ -e /var/www ]
>     then
>         echo Website at /var/www has NOT been deleted.
>     fi
> fi
> 
> > Is there a solution for this problem ?
> 
> see above

OK, this has some virtue. But still the obvious 
dpkg -S httpd.conf fails miserably.

Thanks for you hint anyway.

Ciao
        Racke

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