Re: about the debian way
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:58:38PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 17-Mar-02, 16:39 (CST), Joel Baker <lucifer@lightbearer.com> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting (if minor) point that I've found obnoxious to deal with on some
> > upgrades: things in /etc/cron.d that generate diffs cause *both* to get run
> > by default.
>
> Really? This is a bug, if so. Because the code that checks /etc/cron.d/
> is supposed to skip files containing a '.', just like run-parts. And
> during an upgrade, changed conffiles should be named 'foo.dpkg-new' (or
> foo.dpkg-dist, after the upgrade finishes), and thus skipped.
>
> (I just looked at the code again, and I don't see an obvious hole. Joel, if
> you or someone else can give me a specific example, I'll investigate.)
Hmmm. I'll prod at it and see if I can reproduce it, then. I haven't let
anything last in such an 'unclean' state for a while, out of paranoia, so
it might have been something since fixed. BTS entry *if* I can get it to
reproduce; if not, well, assume I was just having a bad flashback again...
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