Re: /etc/ question

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com> wrote:
>On 23-Feb-2001 Amaya wrote:
>> Of course not! ;-) I'd just move them to the new location.
>> But, I'm starting to think this is not a good idea, maybe.
>
>after talking with other devels here is a method:
>
>in your preinst, check for /etc/foo and if it exists, mkdir /etc/package and
>copy /etc/foo there.  Then remove /etc/foo.  Import thing here is that the
>preinst should not die because of any errors here.
>
>Your package contains /etc/package/foo.  When dpkg gets to the point where the
>conffile will be installed, it will do the usual checking if the conffile
>should be changed and prompting the user.

You have to be even more careful than that, since the installation might
fail and dpkg might want to unwind the maintainer scripts - so 'postrm
abort-upgrade' and 'postrm abort-install' need to move the file back if
possible.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]