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Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root



On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:21:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.

Is the feature triggered for files appearing in /etc?

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