Re: less hard coded config files
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On 19-06-2005 19:54, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Geert Stappers]
>
>>Another strange thing ( in the vision of an administrator who has
>>seen many other Unix / Linux systems ) are the symbolic links to
>>debian-edu files. Such as /etc/ldap/slapd.conf pointing to
>>/etc/ldap/slapd-debian-edu.conf
>
>
> It was the best idea we came up with to enable config upgrades without
> multilevel configuration suppoort.
And you are sure the packages owning those configfiles (and maybe even
conffiles) you replace with symlinks properly handle their files being
replaced with symlinks?
I have experienced in the past (but no, I have no bugreport to point to,
because I considered it my own fault) that upgrading a package with
conffiles changed to symlinks confuses the "do you want to preserve
local changes or replace" routine...
- - Jonas
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