Re: problem with dpkg-reconfigure and noninteractive frontend
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:43:25 -0700, Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> said:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Denis Barbier wrote:
>> When a package is reconfigured, the new debconf settings and
>> current configuration files are available, but previous debconf
>> settings are not and you cannot determine that there have been no
>> local changes.
> While the former is true[1], the latter is not. See, for example,
> how xserver-xfree86 deals (perhaps suboptimally) with this
> situation.
> It's not all that difficult to determine whether a file has been
> modified by the user or not. [Well, assuming the user actually makes
> a change to the file... but you'd have the same problems with
conffiles.>
With conffiles, there is a record of the old versions md5sum.
Of course, ucf is designed for situations like this; you can just use
the debconf db to construct a file, and use ucf to ask the user iff
the user has made any changes.
manoj
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