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Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root



On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:10:29PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:00:52PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > To be, perhaps, a little more explicit: there are programs for which
> > the existence of an empty configuration file means something completely
> > different than a missing a configuration file[1]. Thus, for dpkg
> > conffile handling, removing a configuration file is a legitimate "edit".
> 
> It would help to have an example.  However, even if there is an
> example I don't see how db.root fits in this category.

Unfortunately there's no way for a package to override this aspect of
dpkg's conffile handling. It would have to be handled entirely in the
maintainer scripts in some different (and careful!) way.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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