Re: Proposed handling of generated configuration files (Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness)

[Jarno Elonen <elonen@iki.fi>]

> ucf still has the same fundamental problem with regard to preconfiguration,
> which was the primary issue that I raised in my original message.  The
> consensus, as I recall, was that preconfiguration is important, and that
> prompting in postinst should be minimized.

I may have missed something but why can't the changed/merged configuration 
files be saved somewhere in preinstall phase and the current "live" configs 
be overwritten only in the postinstall phase by dpkg or postinst scripts if 
the rest of the installation went well?

- Jarno