Re: Files from conffiles not being installed
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:29 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:38 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > > also sprach Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> [2004.11.15.1632 +0100]:
> > > > You should also check out /usr/lib/dpkg/ (esp. *.conffiles). Make
> > > > sure that your conffile is getting copied there.
> > >
> > > That's /var/lib/dpkg/info
> Erm, right, double-v.
>
> > Well, I'm getting close now. I had there mypackage.md5sums,
> > mypackage.conffiles, even if the package was uninstalled. After I delete
> Purging the package should remove those files as well as the files
> tagged as conffiles.
>
Well, that was my first mystake, I did not purge the package, only
normal uninstallation.
> > Should I take care in a postrm script to remove those files from there?
> > Because it seems that their removal is not automatic.
> No, dpkg will do that.
>
> > And now I have another problem: I generate mypackage 1.0, install it,
> > modifiy the cofiguration file, then generate mypackage 1.1 and install
> Just to be perfectly clear, your *package* should never modify a
> conffile (via maintainer scripts or such). conffiles are to be
> modified only by the user. New versions of the conffiles may be
> distributed, and they will be gracefully upgraded by dpkg.
>
Yes, I know this allready :). martin f krafft pointed my second mystake:
i did not change the configuration file in any way, so that the dpkg
could ask me about it the second time. Now it all works well.
Thank you all for you help.
> If your *package* needs to modify a file, then it should be a
> "configuration file", but not a conffile. (Just put it in /etc/).
>
> Justin
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