Re: Debconf questions and purge
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> Le Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:23:07PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
>> > A same kind of problem is likely to happen for the conffiles and other
>> > non-conffiles configuration files that I move from wwsympa to sympa
>> > and that are been removed in wwsympa postrm.
>>
>> I'm afraid you're on your own there; dpkg does not deal with shared
>> conffiles well when the older package is removed I think it removes the
>> conffile.
>
> I'm not sure but if sympa has the "Replaces: wwsympa" then the file
> should be owned by sympa and not wwsympa, so when purging wwsympa, the
> configuration file should be kept.
>
> Of course, if wwsympa is purged before installing sympa, then you lost
> the file. And if you add a conflict, then wwsympa will be simply
> removed (and not purged) by apt ...
On automatic upgrade, there won't be any problem because dpkg is
used with the remove option. I only have to hope that the user
will never purge the package.
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Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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