Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:32:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:46:35 +1100, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> said:
> > the user hasn't used debconf to make the change. To cover that
> > circumstance, I've started to make a file containing an md5sum of
> > the config file, and before I change it I make sure the user hasn't.
> > If they've changed it at all (so the md5sum has changed), I don't
> > make any modifications and it's then the user's problem to keep it
> > up to date. It's by no means perfect, but it follows Policy's "must
> > keep local config changes", and doesn't require pre- and
> > post-knowledge of what the options were in Debconf.
>
> This is suboptimal. If there are changes that would be made
> to a file if the user has not modified the file, then the user should
> be offered the choice to accept these changes even if they have
> modified the configuration file on their own. The "my way or the high
> way" approach is a dissservice to our users.
OK, so I'll add a question asking part to my script. It doesn't mean the
entire concept is flawed.
> Check out ucf; it has been specifically written to allow you
> to offer the user a choice, exactly like dpkg does for conffiles.
But it's still "all my changes or all your changes", right? Which is "my
way or the highway" asked on every upgrade... <g>
Anyway, last time I looked at ucf it's documentation spent a lot of time
discussing esoteric examples and absolutely no time showing me how to apply
it to my packages. On a hunch, I just went and installed the latest version
of ucf, and it appears that the documentation has morphed into something
useful, so my homegrown hack's days may be numbered.
- Matt
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