Re: It's Huntin' Season
>>"John" == John H Robinson, IV <jhriv@ucsd.edu> writes:
John> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:07:26PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> On further inspection, one does not need special case code in
>> the script: you just need to ship the old md5sum file in your package
John> looking at your script, it did not seem to be the case, but i will ask
John> anyway:
John> does it support a multiple set of potential md5sums? if no, then it's
John> better than nothing, and i do not see a pressing need to add that.
No, it does not. I meant this script to be a general purpose
conffile provider, with some recovery provisions for transitioning
from a broken package that did not preserve configuration files. I
did not mean it to be a script that does not ask a singlke question
despite trying to recover from an extraordinary situation.
manoj
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