Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?
On 24 Jul 2003 09:46:24 +0200, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> said:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 08:47, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> It really sucks to handle this if you want/need to get rid of it
>> (if it is unmodified) not only on purge but on upgrades. - You'll
>> need
>>
>> if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && \ dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le-nl
>> "1.2.3" && \ [ -e /etc/foo ] && \ [ `md5sum /etc/foo | cut -d\ -f1`
>> = "6bea09fbb18e4676012105fa5fc726c6" ] then echo "Removing orphaned
>> unmodified configfile /etc/foo" 1>&2 rm /etc/foo fi
> In a discussion that followed from this thread off-list, some people
> agreed that the administrator should be asked what he or she wants
> to do with an obsolete conffile. The conffile should not be deleted
> silently because other packages may be using the file.
Then the other package would be in violation of policy, since
until this version, the confile in question belonged to this package,
and this package alone. Policy states what needs be done if packages
want to share conffiles.
Therefore it should be perfectly acceptable for dpkg to delete
the conffile, since no other policy compliant package could be using
it.
manoj
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