Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:47:51 -0600, David Segonds <david@segonds.org> said:
> Dumb question: Did you envision a version of 'ucf' that would not
> rely on being installed on the machine but directly integrated in
> the post and pre scripts?
Duplication of code, and bug fixes in ucf can benefit all
packages using ucf. Unlike complex utilities, ucf has a very simple
interface, and essentially does one thing -- ask the user questions
about configuration files just like dpkg does for conffiles.
> Having multiple copy of 'ucf' laying around is not really effective
> though but, that one less package to install.
Umm, what is the downside of installing another package,
rather than having gazillions of copies of it lying around?
> ucf is keeping one hashfile for all the files that depend on it in
> /var/lib/ucf. One other option, would have been to store one
> hashfile per package.
And what would the advantage be?
manoj
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