Re: transitioning config files between two packages
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:32:43AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:21:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > After an upgrade and answering all of the conffile prompts, does
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-plugins.conffiles still exist and reference these
> > files? Depending on what dpkg is really doing here, it may well be possible
> > to handle the conffile transfer in maintainer scripts. (And I thought
> > dpkg.org once had recipes for exactly this, but unfortunately the site has
> > been down for some time now. :/)
> Are you looking for http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling ?
> (just found it googling). I guess this information (if current) should be
> moved over to the developer's reference.
That seems to be the one. It also doesn't seem to address changing the
owner of a conffile.. ohwell. :)
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