On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:40 +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: > I just began to build a package. I read some tutorial and I have a small > question : > How to update configuration files stored in local users home directory Generally, packages don't do that - it is up to the runtime program to handle /home/user/.foo stuff. The package has no idea which usernames should be updated and which should not. The first time that a particular user runs the updated package, the runtime binary must handle the /home/user/.foo data and either upgrade it silently or offer a method for the user to contribute to the upgrade process. > with these contained in package and save the previous configuration > files somewhere in the filesystem hierarchy ? The package shouldn't need to contain files under /home. (I'd expect lintian to give an error for packages that try to do it too, but I haven't tested that.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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