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Re: How to include symlinks to conffiles in a package?



On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:23:20 +1000, Anthony Towns
<aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
>For symlinks? I doubt it. There are two things to worry about: one is
>where the symlink points, and the other is what it's called. sysvinit's
>symlinks don't generally change where they point, but do change what
>they're called (S30 -> K20 eg). I don't think renames like that are
>something you can reasonably handle in a conffile-esque manner.

Bad.

I will probably ship a conffile that will be used as source to
generate symlinks, and prominently document that changes to the
symlinks will be overwritten.

Greetings
Marc

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