Re: Clearing the conffile status of a file
* Sven Joachim:
> On 2017-07-12 09:56 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> I've got a request to remove the conffile status of a file after it is
>> no longer a conffile. dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile does not
>> seem to do this, based on the documentation and the source code.
>>
>> Is there a clean way to implement this (i.e., by not patching
>> /var/lib/dpkg/status directly)?
>
> AFAIK the only method, and not a pretty one, that works from package
> maintainer scripts is to rename the file in the preinst and rename it
> back in the postinst. Plus all the error handling required (e.g. if
> unpacking fails), where dpkg-maintscript-helper would at least take care
> of the gory details[1] for you.
> 1. https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
Oh, I assumed that this was only about preserving the file, and it
would not affect the state as a conffile as such (except that the file
would be gone).
> My choice would probably be to leave the conffile alone, at least until
> dpkg itself is able to take care of the problem[2].
> 2. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822462
That makes sense, thanks.
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