Re: some packages don't list their /etc/default/ file

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Some packages don't list their /etc/default/ file as part of the package:
> # for i in /etc/default/*; do dpkg -S $i;done
> dpkg: /etc/default/alsa not found.
> aumix: /etc/default/aumix
> cdrecord: /etc/default/cdrecord
> libc6: /etc/default/devpts
> dnsmasq: /etc/default/dnsmasq
> dpkg: /etc/default/exim4 not found.
> dpkg: /etc/default/fetchmail not found.
> dpkg: /etc/default/hotplug not found.
> initrd-tools: /etc/default/initrd-tools.sh
> dpkg: /etc/default/iptables not found.
> libnss-db: /etc/default/libnss-db
> dpkg: /etc/default/noffle not found.
> dpkg: /etc/default/rcS not found.
> cdrecord: /etc/default/rscsi
> spamassassin: /etc/default/spamassassin
> ssh: /etc/default/ssh

You have just discovered a known fact: Not every configuration file
has to be a "conffile" in the dpkg sense.

Not shipping a configuration file inside the .deb and creating it in
the postinst a perfectly acceptable way of managing such file.