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Re: design issues in debian packages



On 19 Dec 2001, Brian May wrote:

> >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
>
>     Adam> The way I am solving this for jboss, is to have a .foo to
>     Adam> match each foo in a .d, where .foo is executable, and this
>     Adam> .foo is what checks to see if the configuration fragment(as
>     Adam> I call them) should be used.  My goal is to make this script
>     Adam> generic(so far, it is), and have it be included into
>     Adam> debianutils.  This script also handles the case of .rpm-save
>     Adam> and .dpkg-new type files, and skips over them.
>
> This of course is another potential solution. While it seems the best
> solution I have seen so far, I am not sure I like it :-(.
>
> Would .foo be a conffile? Which file should the user edit?

.foo, being in /etc, is a conffile.  To disable the inclusion completely, the
admin would edit .foo, inserting 'exit 1' at the top, just like for most other
shell scripts.



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