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Re: should a postinst script create config files?



On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:09:15AM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:

> nice.  Maybe that could be implemented by moving the old conffile
> and not installing the new one, so the service (presumably) will
> fail due to missing configuration until the admin patches it up.

It might also choose to start with some (perhaps quite inappropraite)
defaults or otherwise misbehave - dpkg can't safely assume that that is
how a missing configuration file is going to be handled.

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