Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:28:27PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:54:25PM +0100, Muhammad Hussain Yusuf wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've just changed the directories of the conffile, binaries etc. to
> > conform with Policy 3.5.5.0.
> >
> > The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and the new one is /etc/filerunner
> > and the problem is that when installing new package, and an older version is
> > installed, dpkg gives an error message, and the old conffile directory,
> > not being empty, does not get removed.
>
> You could you copy the old version to the new in the preinst and
> remove the old version in the postinst. Yes, dpkg will warn that the
> old directory is not empty, but don't worry about it. But be careful
> to check the value of $1 and only to do them when the value is
> sensible (eg not when it's abort-*).
What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still
complain?
-S
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