Re: Gnorba files in /etc are conffile? (was: bubblemon: Files in etc not marked as conffiles)
On 07-Feb-02, 14:14 (CST), Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:45:33PM +0000, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> > bubblemon contains files in /etc that are not marked as conffiles.
> > This violates a must in Debian Policy, so is a Serious bug.
That is completely untrue. What it says is that files in /etc/ should
be configuration files, which must be treated specially to avoid losing
local modifications when the package is upgraded (or removed but not
purged). One easy way to do that is mark it as a conffile, but it is
not the only way (and, if the files are created or modified by the
maintainer scripts (e.g. most uses of debconf), not the right way).
> Does that mean I should mark the Corba cinfig file as conffile or does that
> mean corba is looking for it's ressources in the wrong place?
Read the policy manual section on configuration files. Basically, if the
file is intended to be modified by humans, and should maintain those
modifications on a system wide basis, then it's a configuration file.
Steve
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