Bug#163657: marked as done ([CONFFILE] dpkg: should support conffile hijacking)
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From: "Thomas Hood" <jdthood@mail.com>
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Subject: dpkg: should support conffile hijacking
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: wishlist
Suppose you have a package, foo, with conffile /etc/foo,
and it is replaced by package foo2, which handles /etc/foo
by means of maintainer scripts.
The following problem arises:
1. Remove (not purge) foo
2. Install foo2
3. Purge foo
The last step purges /etc/foo, even though this is now
managed by foo2!
At present, policy says that foo2 shouldn't touch /etc/foo,
since it is a conffile (belonging to foo). However, there
are cases where one wants to switch from managing some
configuration file, perhaps one with a standard name, the
conffile way to managing it the maintainer script way.
One such case is bsd-ftpd, which replaces ftpd.
(See #68703.) To support this, it would appear that dpkg
needs to be extended.
There are different ways to do this. One way is to add
a field to the control file which declares that a package
will use a certain filename for configuration purposes.
The presence of this field in foo2's control file, e.g.,
Config-Files: /etc/foo
would cause dpkg to remove /etc/foo from foo's list of
conffiles. Then, /etc/foo would not be deleted when foo
was purged.
Alternatively, a new field could be invented that declared
a stronger conflict that Conflicts: does -- namely, a
conflict that requires purging of the conflicting package
before installation of the replacing one.
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Thomas Hood
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Subject: Re: Bug#234286: debian-policy: log file should be in packages' file list
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:16:28 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> said:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:31:15AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.0 Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Idea: programs that will make log files should be required to list
>> the basic log file (before rotations, etc.) so that dpkg -L package
>> will list them, and dpkg -S will find them.
> There is no mechanism in dpkg for packages to do this yet, so
> there's no point in you filing this request against policy. Sorry. I
> recommend that this bug be closed. (I believe that the request is
> already in dpkg's huge bug list somewhere, so no need to add to it
> with a reassign; it's certainly a reasonably well-known wishlist
> among the developers.)
> If a package attempted to fulfil your request using only the current
> mechanisms, then the log file would be erased on every upgrade. This
> is why an extension to dpkg is needed.
Closing the report.
manoj
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