ucf 0.02 uploaded to incoming (preserve user changes in config files)
Hi,
As promised, this is now available.
manoj
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Package: ucf
Version: 0.02
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Installed-Size: 120
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Description: Update Configuration File - preserve user changes in config files
Debian policy states that configuration files must preserve user
changes during package upgrade. The easy way to achieve this behavior
is to make the configuration file a `conffile', in which case dpkg
handles the file specially during upgrades, prompting the user as
needed.
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This is appropriate only if it is possible to distribute a default
version that will work for most installations, although some system
administrators may choose to modify it. This implies that the
default version will be part of the package distribution, and must
not be modified by the maintainer scripts during installation (or at
any other time).
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This script attempts to provide conffile like handling for files that
can not be labelled conffiles, are not shipped in a Debian package,
but handled by the postinst instead. This script allows one to
maintain files in /etc, preserving user changes and in general
offering the same facilities while upgrading that dpkg normally
provides for "conffiles".
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Additionally, this script provides facilities for transitioning a
file that had not been provided conffile like protection to come
under this schema, and attempts to min imize questions asked at
install time. Indeed, the transitioning facility is better than the
one offered by dpkg while transitioning a file from a non-conffile to
conffile status.
--
"The biggest growth industry in UNIX is promoting standards." Rikki
Kirzner, Dataquest.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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