Re: [custom] Custom Debian Distros need the help from debian developers
Oliver Kurth <okurth@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:17, Steve Greenland wrote:
>> I suspect that proper use of ucf solves the problem, and gives
>> conffile-like handling to non-conffiles. But until use of ucf for
>> "debconf-ized" packages is mandated, it won't be sufficient.
> Can ucf do changes to a config file while still preserving user changes
> and comments?
> Sorry, I have read the documentation, but it has not made it clear to
> me.
[...]
No it cannot. ucf offers *dpkg-like* conffile managment for
configuration files that are not shipped in the deb but are generated
at install time, i.e. you get "file foo changed. ... Y or I : install
the package maintainer's version, ...".
cu andreas
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