Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Andrew Stribblehill <a.d.stribblehill@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
[...]
> * Put a debconf message into the package warning that the behaviour
>  has changed. Write one init script. Allow the user to configure
>  which daemons start at boot-time by editing /etc/default/cfengine2
>  which contains RUN_CFEXECD=0; RUN_CFENVD=1; ...

Hello,
This sounds like a nice solution, but is the debconf message really
needed, why can't you just ship it with all daemons off by default?

> * As above, but manage /etc/default/cfengine2 by debconf.

Don't do this unless you cannot ship with sane defaults. For example "all
daemons off".

> If I do this, must this file not be a conffile?

Yes, and you have to parse the file in the debconf script to preserve
user-changes outside debconf. See debconf-devel(7) for a tutorial.
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