Re: diversion/conffile
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> [2002.02.18.1957 +0100]:
> > You can not divert conffiles. I've tried. And I am a dpkg
> > devloper.
>
> okay, so instead of installing the file via debian/rules, i have the
> option to do postinst. however, then i can't mark it a conffile
> because dpkg-buildpackage will bitch. so i don't mark it as
> a conffile, but then there's an init.d script that's just overwritten
> on upgrade. so i implement my own checking of file modification via
> md5sum. tedious but doable.
Manoj recently uploaded a program that does this for you.
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