Re: to conffile or not to conffile
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 01:41, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:10:02PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote:
> >> >> Why not just create a symlink to a device node /dev/flipit and
> >> >> just link it to the right file.
> >> >
> >> > Why/how would that help?
> >>
> >> Then /etc/flipit.conf could just always have /dev/flipit, and the
> >> package's maintainer scripts would control where /dev/flipit
> >> pointed to.
> >
> > And this would integrate with devfs, how?
>
> I have absolutely no idea. :-)
You could have your package provide a conf file
/etc/devfs/conf.d/package-name which contains:
REGISTER ^tts/0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname flipit
UNREGISTER ^tts/0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink flipit
Then run "update-devfsd" in your postinst and postrm scripts.
Then the user could edit that file and run "killall -1 devfsd" if they want
to change it.
This would be painful.
> Perhaps the link should be /etc/flipit/port -> /dev/whatever.
Sure.
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