Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> schrieb:
> The problem I have is the package upgrade. dh_installdeb (which
> I want to keep using) flags *all* files in /etc as conffiles and
> provide no means to exclude patterns. Thus, in order to remove the
> file from dpkg's custody, I have to actually *not* install it in the
> new package. This causes the upgrade to delete the configuration
> file, which is surely not what we want.
Have you tested this? I think that the file will not be deleted, because
upon upgrade, the old package is only removed, not purged. Therefore all
conffiles stay in /etc.
If you happen to have tetex-base installed in sid or sarge and have
continuously updated since woody, you'll find lots of useless *.map
files in /etc/texmf/dvips which are no longer in our *deb. You'll also
find /usr/share/tetex-base/remove-oldmaps which allows local
administrators to remove them.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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