Hello all, I'm trying my hand at a somewhat more challenging package this time, which uses debconf to extract a username and password from the user whichi is stored in a config file in /etc and used to start a daemon (specifically a login client). I've got a couple of problems though: - debconf doesn't append '|| true' to the init.d stop in prerm. this means that when start-stop-daemon returns 1 the removal/upgrade fails miserably if the daemon isn't running or can't be stopped. imho this is broken (although it may be better than removing a package under a daemon that refuses to stop?). how do i get around this? ignore it? - install -m 600 myfile /etc/myfile doesn't set the permissions appropriately (?) - debconf was surprisingly easy... however creating the config files once the information has been obtained wasn't. i would have liked to have filled in a template but ended up doing 'echo "key value" >> /etc/myfile'. is there a 'standard' way of doing this? perhaps i should be using perl and text::template? Any assistance would be most appreciated, - samj
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