Re: should a postinst script create config files?

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Subject: Re: should a postinst script create config files?
From: Darren Salt <list@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:26:00 +0000
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I demand that Brian May may or may not have written...

[snip]
> Hmmm. What dpkg really needs is a user defined script that runs when
> installing a conffile (whether different or not).

An option to run sdiff, perhaps?

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- should a postinst script create config files?
  - From: Maik Busch <maik.busch@web.de>
- Re: should a postinst script create config files?
  - From: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
- Re: should a postinst script create config files?
  - From: Maik Busch <maik.busch@web.de>
- Re: should a postinst script create config files?
  - From: Brian May <bam@debian.org>

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