Re: Moving conffiles

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 16-Jan-03, 16:50 (CST), Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org> wrote: 
>      Is it legal to create /etc/dictd/ and move /etc/dictd.conf to
> that subdirectory in the preinst?


The consensus seems to be to copy it in the preinst and remove the old
one in the postinst, or possibly move it in the preinst and then
support moving it back in the prerm if the installation fails and backs
out.

> If so, should I have debconf notify the user that the conffile has
> been moved?

No. Just put it in the changelog. If the user goes to /etc and can't
find dictd.conf, but does find dictd, it's pretty obvious what happened.


Steve
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