Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

[Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> >So the call of ucf looks something like that:
> >
> >    if which ucf >/dev/null; then
> >        ucf --purge /etc/foo.conf
> >    fi
> 
> no, the correct one is:
> 
> if which ucf >/dev/null; then
>     $whatever_ucf_command /etc/foo.conf
> else
>     rm -f /etc/foo.conf
> fi

You don't get the point. ucf does not remove the files, it removes
the files from its own registry. So your if-else doesn't really help.

Best Regards,
Patrick